The California Lumber Merchant - February 1956

Boords, Dimension ond Timbers of Douglos fir, West Coost hemlock, Western red cedor ond Sitko spruce will hove new grode nomes insteod of numbers beginning Morch 1 5, 1956.

NO. | be.o-es CONSTRUCTION

NO.2 .... becomes STANDARD

NO.B... becomes UTILITY

NO. 4...... . becornes ECONOMY

There is no chonge in the identificotion of Select Merchontoble Boords, Select Structurol Dimension ond Timbers, or verticol groin Cleors.

The top grode of flot groin Cleors becom"t C & Btf.

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber. shipments of 503 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer in the week ending January 14 were 0.4/o above production ; new orders were lS.LVa above. Unfilled orders were 39/o of stocks. production w:as 2B.O/o and shipments were 38.4% above the previous week; new orders 4l.Z% above.

National Lumber Mahufacturers Association reported national production of lumber in the first 1l months of 1955 totaled an estimated 36,217,000,000 b.f., 8/o greater than the like 1954 period. Softwood output was'up 9/o and hard,woods l/o above 1954. Shipments and orders were IO/o above 1954. November production totaled an estimated 3,111,000,000 b.f.,9% below October. Softwood shipments were 3/o below production and orders 7/o below; hardwood shipments exceeded production by 7/o and orders were 8/o above. Gross mill stocks of both on Nov. 30 totaled 8,618,000,000 b.f.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported for 169 mills (143 operating) in the week ending Jarluary 14: pro-

duction, 110,364,003 feet; shipments, 106,727,412 feeti o'r. d,ers, 123,764,047 leet (12.1% over production). :

' western pine Association reported for 109 mills in the week ending January 7: production 51,298,000 feet; shipments, 53,707,W feet; orders, 61,995,000 feet (20.9/o above tt3:fifft?

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pine Association reported for 108 mills in the week ending January 14: production, 20,351,000 feet; shipments, 18,066,000 feet; orders, 22,617,00O ieet (ll.l3% above production)

Douglas Fir Plywood Association reported orders of 108,124,000 feet in the week ending January 14 were up al_ most 53/o from the previous week and 6.5/o above the lilie 1955 week. Production of 108,760,000 feet was one-third above the previous week and 13/o above last vear.

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San Francisco-The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, prin,cipal shipping medium for a majority of the lumber mills in Northern California, suffered severe damage during the floods (CLM, Page 4, l/t5/56). It is estimated that the cost of repairing the damage from the December floods alone will cost the railroad the equivalent of the profits realized from the shipment of 90,000 CARS of lumber-more than is shipped from this region in a normal year of operation, the California Redwood Association reports to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT.

Norrhern Cqlifornlcl Flood Toll Tcrllied

The sawmills that took the heaviest punishment in the disastrous December flooding of Northern California-and a few retail lurriberyards in the region-spent most of January getting back to normal; digging out the debris and muck, taking a floating inventory, and healing the bruises on manpower and equipment.

For some of the mills, the damage was even woise than had first been feared. At others, like the Maclntosh Lumber Company's mills at Korbel, Calif., it was happily reported that the stories of damage were erroneous, that no casualty had happened and production was proceeding without delay.

But, over-all, the picture was not pretty. Damage Senerally was great and the toll was widespread. Sheriff Harold Scott said that owners of marked logs'on the beaches of Del Norte county, where they had been washed by floodwaters, could start reclaiming their property; he announced the public could start removing unmarked logs as they found them on the coast.

Everywhere, the aid of men and money was being thrown into the breach. The government agencies were making disaster relief availabie; Rep. Harlan Hagen (D-Calif.) said he would introduce a bill in Congress to make lowinterest loans available to victims who lost their homes in the state's floods.

' Most important, the green light was on and one goal was uppermost: to get the roads cleared and tracks restored so that Shipping-the life-line and the present bottleneck of the crisis-could return lumber to its dominant position in the state's and the flood area's economy.

Highway 101

By January 20, according to several trucking firms, the California Highway Patrol office at San Rafael and the Bay Bridge Information (who are in constant communication with Highway 101 conditions), the highway was-at 12:00 Noon-open to all traffic but delays up to two hours could be expected at several points north of Willits' A good part of this delay was due to the huge amount of equipment the state has working on the project and, of course, this is a necessary evil' The January 14-15 weekend rains-again of near-flood proportions-slowed up repair work and, in places, added to'the repair job. A bad

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A HELP|'NG HAND-Fotlowing fhe Coodr of December 17-22 many of rhe Norrh' ern Cnliforniq rnills turned from their irnpcrtonl dry-kilning of quoliry finilh lumber lo the more immediote need of drying mottresses, furniture ond house' hold goodr for residents of neorby communilies. Iop phoro shows the Scofio boll pirk of 4:00 p.m. Deccnber 22, when rhe Eel River hqd risen lo 67 foel' Rodii m*soges wenl ouf from The Pocif,c lumber Co. thare thcl saven dry kilnr would bo avoiloble fo three lown3 in norlhern Humboldr county ond the two photos show use modc of rhe kilns which chorge 2OO.d)O b'f' of finish lumber under normql o?cloting conditions.

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Another Grecrt Yeqr for Homebuilding Predicted

By John M. Di,ckerman, Erecutiae Director National Association of Home Builders

The optimistic outlook for business in 1956 will be reflected in a steady, although highly competitive, market for the hcime building industry.

The industry's present position is quite different from that of a year ago, when it acted as a pace-setter for the entire economy. At that time the home building industry was a beneficiary of an exceedingly heavy flow of mortgage money. Today, mortgage money is tight, a condition that has existed in varying degree since last spring.

The difficulty in obtaining adequate mortgage money has been aggravated by the expanding credit demands frbm all sectors of the economy, and by the efiorts of those responsible for monetary policy to cope with this problem of demand outdistancing supply through such general controls as the Federal Reserve rediscount rate.

W'e are now experiencing something of a slide-off in housing starts which, although still at high levels, are below the exceptionally high levels of late 1954 and early 1955. It is the adjustments which have been taking place in the free money market, and not the mid-year credit restrictions on home building imposed by FHA and VA, which are responsible for the decline in housing starts at the present time. This decline probably will range from 150,000 to 200,000 units under the high 1954 fourth quarter seasonally adjusted rate of about 1.4 million.

But for all its problems-mortgage money difficulties, credit restrictiqns, rising building costs, to name but three-the home building industry, by and large, is in excellent shape for challenge and growth. The sustained high volume of 1955 which resulted in the start of an estimated 1.3 million units, predominantly single_ family, was the best business year the industry has ever experienced. The dollar volume should be about $t+.0 bittion, up substantially from the 912.1 billion in 1954.

I believe this year will also be a good year in housing. It will be a year of continued strength and high activity, although volume will be down somewhat from last year, perhaps 50,000, perhaps 100,000 units. This year should see as many houses built as the money supply permits, and mortgage money availability and terms will be the major limiting factors. Dollar volume of new construction- despite the moderate fall-off in number of dwelling unitsshould be close to the 1955 level, primarily because of the trend toward larger and better houses, as well as the high costs we ,are encountering for the items that go into the finished home, including land, labor and materials.

Decade of Great Change

The year 1955 marked the tenth full year of home production since World War II. This decade has witnessed great forward progress on the part of the home building industry and a tremendou,s improvement in American housing. In retrospect, these have been years of great economic and social .change, the full significance of which we are just beginning to appreciate.

In this period, we have reversed long-standing housing trends, and have become predominantly a nation of home-

See tt6O Billions in '56 Building

Washington, D.C.-The construction industries should see their first $60 billion building year in 1956, the Associated General Contractors of America declared in its yearly outlook. The AGC, representing about 65(X) cqntracting firms, said total new construction plus repair and maintenance topped 957 billion in 1955, setting a new record far passing expectations. The '56 outlook is for $44,500,000,000 in n€w building (a higher estimate than the Department of Commerce) and $15,500,000,000 in repair agrd upkeep. The AGC's 1955 estimate proved more accurate than many government and other estimates.

The $57 billion 1955 total accounted for more than l5o/o of. all U. S. outlays for goods and services and provided more than one job out of every seven, counting persons employed i,n the hauling, selling and making of building malterials and products. Residential construction totaled $16,300,000,0O0, a 2Lo/o increase over 1954. The AGC forecast that residential construction would dip to about $16 billion this year because of tight money and current government curbs on mortgage credit.

owners; we have seen the development of a mass production industry-which has produced more than ten million houses in 1O years-a volume far beyond our vision at the end gf World War II when this production got underway. We have seen a tremendous upgrading of housing conditions of our people, and we have begun.Jo understand what residential construction can mean to our economic growth, as well as to our stability and strength as a nation.

On the basis of all the information at hand, it is reasonable to expect home building in the next five years to range between 1.2 and. 1.3 million units annuallya somewhat higher volume than the 1.15 million average annuaf rate during 1951-55. In dollar terms, this should approximate $15 billion per year.

In the period beyond 1960, we can expect market growth based on increasing family formation resulting from. the post-war baby boom, so that by 1965 the market should have moved gradually up to 1.5-1.7 million new units yearly, with a dollar value ranging upward to $20 billion.

Throughout the decade we should see a continuation of the trend toward single family homes, rather than apartments, with home ownership rising to close to 65/o, compared with 4l/o in I94I, 56% in 1955. These homes will be larger, with more three and four-bedroom units, reflecting needs of larger families. They will tend more toward contemporary styling, toward use of more component parts, such as the packaged kitchen, toward use of more fully processed materials, particularly plastics and metals.

The years ahead will not be easy. But neither were those of the past decade. There will be manifold problems but. by and large, they should be the hrppy problems of growth and expansion, the problems of opportunity and challenge. Far from being satisfied, the home building market is just beginning to unfold.

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To take some simple little words, And make them laugh and sing, To catch the melody of birds, And make the echoes ring; To bring a smile where smiles were few, To lighten someone's task, This would, I fear, seem vain to you, A foolish thing to ask. But I would seek no finer fame, Could ask no greater prize, Than smile and sunshine to reclaim, fn sorrow-brooding eyes. It needs but gentleness and truth, It needs scant skill or art, To brush aside the wreck and ruth, And reach a saddened heart. Let him who will choose ba,ttles crash, The laurels won by might, And pror,rdly.rna.rch mid war and clash, The victor in the fight; For me 'twere triumph greater far, Than cross bestowed by king, To go where gloom and sorrows are, With words that laugh and sing. * * *-* T' card'

There is a small cafe on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with a big sign on the front that reads: "ALL YOU CAN EAT F'OR A HUNDRED DOLLARS."***

For a time during the terrible flu epidemic of 1918, in the city of San Francisco all public places were closed, all people who worked with or waited on the public wore white flu masks to cover nose and mouth, and many people on the streets wore the same. It wds then that ar drunk uttered a much-quoted remark when he said, "I've lived to see four great things happen: World War One ended, the ch,urches are all closed, the saloons are all open, and the women are muzzled." ,r i< ,r

A few days after New Year's, according to report, the janitor of a small church was seen taking down a banner that had been there during the holidays, that read, "Peace on earth, good will to men." *O"*.r for the season?

Most folks have an idea that "you-all" started in the Southern part of the United States. Wrong. That is, unless Tarsus was a Southern city. For we fi,nd St. Pa,ul, formerly Saul of Tarsus, using that combination of words frequently. In his Epistle to the Philippians, Chapter I, Verse 4, he says: "Always in every prayer of mine for you all." Then in Verse 7, same Chapter, he writes: "Even as it is meet

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for me to think this of you all." And in the very next Verse, he says: "For God is my record how greatly I long after You a,ll."

One of the outstanding bankers of the United States was making a speech recently, and he came off with this one: "Old bankers never die; they just lose interest." **

. T.om Dreier quotes a friend. of his as saying: "Some people aren't normal unless they are fuming and cussing about something. Not me. I flatter myself that when some woman driving a1 big car gives me less than half the road in passing, I don't call down imprecations on all women drivers for the rest of the day. ONLY FOR THE NEXT FEw MTLES"'

A grammar school exam used the question: "What are the three most common causes of fire?" And a bov answered: "Men, women, and children."

And Matt Weinstock writes in The Los Angeles MirrorNews: "ff you like your present connections, Don't pass cars at intersections."

People everSrwhere do not hurry and worry apd hustle like we Americans. Some visitors in Mexico City started for a bull fight and got lost. They stopped a traffic cop and asked directions. First he told them. Then he drew them a map. Then he got into their car and went with them to the place, saw the fight, and went to dinner with them afterwards. ***

They are a good dearl that way in some respects in the C"j,rt French country in Louisiana. The mayor of one of those lazy, small towns in Bayou country told a visitor: "We sip life; we don't gulp it." *

Isn't it a shame that more of our Americans have not. learned that lesson; to sip life, instead of tryiing to swallow it whole? You see, those country folks have to ta,ke time to do their cooking, and cooking done in a hurry could never be like the "cuisine" of Southern Louisiana. There is an old legend in that courrtry that Thomas Jefferson did not really pay thirteen million dollars for the Louisiana Territory. He paid that much for the French recipes, and they threw in the a"rrtao;".* *

Not true, of course, but if it were it would, in my judgment, make Tom Jefferson the most successful of all purchasing agents, in addition to his other incredible abilities. When you think of the se,nseless fashion in which we strew

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the millions and the billiorls around over the'earth; getting the Cajun cooking recipes for just thirteen million dollars would constitute a triumph to register on the red letter pages of our history.

"Time cannot wither nor custom stale" the wqnderful habits of those South Louisiana French, with their leisurely living, their slow but marvelous cooking, and their love of fun. For nowhere on earth are there folks with a grander sense of humor.

When Ja,rres A. Garfield was presi'dent of Hiram College, a man brought his sqn to be a student, with a request that the boy be given a short course. He was too impulsive and impatient to take the four-year course, said the proud father. Garfield said yes, a short course could'be arranged, but warned the man to remember that it takes God a hundred years to make a sturdy oak, but a squash only takes two months."

Mark Twain said: "The holy passion of FRIENDSHIP is of so sweet, and steady, and loyal, and enduriarg a nature that it will last through a ulhole lifetime-IF NOT ASKED TO LEND MONEY."

He was the crack salesman for a wholesale concern. He had one bad habit. fle was generally late for work in the morning. One day the president of the outfit said to him: "Mr. Smith, I get here at 8:30 in the morning. Through my window I see passing between 8:30 and 9:00 in the morning the presidents of tyo of the biggest banks in town,

Stqte of rhe Union-(Timberl

"I propose that farmers be asked to contract voluntarily with the government to shift into forage, trees and storage cultivated lands most needing conservation measures. Forest lands under good management are a constant and a renewable resource. Onethird of our forest area is in f.arm woodlands. From this source can. come a large share of the lumber, pulpwood and other forest products to meet the growing needs of our expanding economy. The conservation reserve can mean productive and protective tree cover for less productive lands now used for cultivated crops."-plesident Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farm message to Congress, January 9, 1956.

the Mayor of the Citn the Federal Judge, the heards of two of our biggest business corporations, and others of the same size and importance. r At ten o'clock you come in. Now, tell me, who in the l"t_"t; you, anyway?"

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and apcomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earthfs beautn or failed to express it; who has looked for the best in others, and iiven the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory is a benediction.

I7e're indepen<ient ! We think our independence is a business asset. It means that we give a freedom of choice in buying the finest available materials fcr each iob, without any pressure from the big wheels. Of course, we're not soft-pedalling any of our top suppliers, our good mill sources or any of our good friends in the industry but we're not giving any free rides either. Being independent not owned by some rnanufacturer we have freedom of choice in buying and selling. You have freedom of choice in buying here. Your needs, plus our unbiased selling, gives you the best. Our independence is your assurance of quality here's an asset you can measure on your cost sheets.

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Copocity over one-million, lhreehundred lhousond boord feet per month. Troined personnel prepore, hondle ond supervise oll species of lumber kiln-dried by Coosl. Automolic controls ond reversible crosscirculolion eliminote much of lhe downfoll, worping or lwisling when Coost experls prepore ond dry your lumber. Becquse of these foclors, our insuronce roles ore lhe lowesl coveroge in this oreo. All moleriol dried right-dried on lime.

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It was at a big charity ball tha,t a young man glimpsed in the crowd a girl so beautiful to see that it fairly took his breath away. She had everything, and then some.

He sought an introduction, asked for the dance, she smiled and bowed, and thev swept away with the music. She danced like an angel, and her delicate perfume matched perfectly her face and form. She was enchantment itself.

SCTSA December Meeting

The December meeting of the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association was called to order by President Herb Geisenheyner December 8 at 8:45 p.m. Dinnelivas enjoyed'by all present in the main dining room of the Rodger Young auditorium, each having a choice as to the menu.

Secretary Bob Inglis read two letters from Harry Robinson which stated that he was getting along fine and would probably be present at the January meeting. Another letter was read from Frank Cook, Moore Dry Kiln Co., asking each association member to give his ideas on stickers.

A discussion was introduced by Jesse Moody of Consoli-

Carried away by the wonder of her, he whispered in her ear: "You are the loveliest thing I have ever seen ! You must be something direct from Parardise ! Tell me, please, what can I do to win your favor?"

And, speaking for the first time, her'deep contralto voice said:

dated Lumber Co., in r'vhich he stated that if members could see some of the things lvhich are being recommended, it would be pogsible to comprehend the ideas much more easily. The discussion then centered on the possibility of field trips.

The subject of seasoning lumber was considered, making this meeting one of the most enlightening and most interesting ever held. Since the group was quite small, it was much more personal in relationship to the individual's point of view and discussion rvas facilitated to a marked degree. Any operator or lumberman who missed this meeting also missed a rare treat.

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LMANC BOOTH (note tricky letiers), creoted by Don Wilson of the ossociotion, displ:ying mony wood ond plywood somples, eoch identified; in oddition to donoting shell of rhe booth, Western Pine Supply Co., Emeryville, gove construction spqce. U.5. Plywood booth (right) boo:ted Weldwood, ond the lumberyord qs ploce to buy.

D-l-Y SHOW EXHIBITORS included Chesney, Inc., with its Speed Clomps (obove) ond (from top, ot lefr): do-it-yourself swimming pool kit including lominqted vinyl liner, concrete <oping, filter, skimmer ond moin droin for obwt $l IOO (mermoids not included in kit!); Noson Point Compony's disploy of new point producls, ond Reynolds Metols' booth showing do-il-yourself qluminum.

In the irrterior <lccoratirtg tjeltl. thcre rvert c1isp1a,t's <lepictt()l1e\\,allttlritttltllrrlrlfs1lingles,therc rur;rteri:Lls anrl tccltnitlucs to bt' le:trtre'tl at the shorr'.

YOUR LUI'|lBER BEN 6hese Lugpgt.}|erchonls

l\EW TUMBERYARD ITEMS to cotch rhe shoulder trode were disployed by Pine Tree Products Co., Emeryville; inquiries were turned over to PTP's reloil dccounls. The Whire Bros. booth (right) showed hqrdwoods ond hqrdwood plywoods; movoble rock showed ponelings; Shop-Smith showed workqbiliry of hordwood species. renro<lcling uttics. t'xhilritors tlisplrrl'erl a uicle varietv of tten

Low of Diminishing Returns

ft was Adam Smith writing in his immortal book on economics, "The Wealth of Nations," who warned that w,hen taxes are allowed to rise too high, they invoke ..the law of diminishing returns."

The truth of that statement ha,s bee,n proven countless times in the history of this and other ndtions. Let a tax become exorbitant and, in a large assortment of ways, those upon whom the tax is imposed seek ways and means of evading it, and thus cut down the total income from that source,

Recently there appeared before the Subcommittee on the Economic Report an American business man who warned that we had better think carefully about Adam Smith's warning in our taxing matters; that the law of diminishing returns could easily reduce rather than increase our i,ncome from certain taxes, arnd reduce needed production.

The gentleman was the president of the great du pont industry, and his name is C. H. Gree,nwalt. He said we should remember that the greatness of the United States depends heavily on the ability of industry to produce. He said that "an industrial corporation is not ar machine that can be run by automation, but is a team of human beings,', which might well be influenced by taxes.

The highest bracket man in this country today gets to keep only 9 cents of each dollar he earns, after taxes, and the question naturally arises, are men going to continue to wear out brain and brawn for such a return? "Industry must rely most importantly on financial compensation and

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as it becomes i,ncreasingly diffrcult to keep any substantial portion of its earnings, it will become increasingly difficult to interest investors in industrial stocks, or high type management in joining its ranks," said Mr. Greenwalt.

One of the most impressive points in his testimony before the Committee was when he related how comparatively insignificant are the taxes collected from the higher brackets. For the year 1954 all the proceeds from the personal income ta,:< brackets above 50 percent amounted to $1,075,000,000, or 3.8 percent of all the personal income taxes collected for the year. It was L-2/3 percent of all Federal expenditures for the year, or just enough to run the Federal governme,nt for six days.

It would be easy to demonstrate, perhaps, that this government loses plenty of money by killing incentive to people or firms in the higher brackets. How often do you read or hear about figures in the entertainment world frankly refusing some engagement at high pay because the net return to them would be so very close to nothing? And it happens in plenty of business matters, too.

The economic wisdom of Adam Smith grows more apparent with the passing of the years, instead of becoming obsolete, as has happened to the great majority of prognosticators.

Douglas fir forests of western Oregon and \\rashington contain enough timber to build a new house for everv family now living in the United States.

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lncreosed Profits with CATAVERAS CEMENTS

Coloveros Cement Compcny Aheod of Expqnsion Schedule

Calaveras Cement Company has advanced by several months the completion date of its $4,00O,000 plant expansion program which originally was scheduled {or the end of 1956, President Wm. Wallace Mein, Jr., announced.

Major item in the expansion program is a 360-foot rotary kiln which is in the final stages of fabrication in the San Francisco shipyards of Bethlehen-r Pacific Coast Steel Corporation. It is Calaveras' fifth, and rvill raise the company's production capacity by 3O/o to more than 4,500,00O barrels of cement per year.

"The $lant enla,rgement is being rushed because Calaveras wants to continue to supply its customers with whatever amounts of cement they may require," Mein declared.

The first of eight 45-foot long sections of the kiln already has arrived at the Calaveras plant in San Andreas, Calif. The other sections will continue moving by rail at threeday intervals until the shipment is complete. Supporting piers for the kiln already are in place, and the sections will be assembled into a completed unit without delay.

The Bethlel-rem yard in Sarl Francisco is rolling the shell of the kiln out of fu-inch steel plate on the same floor and with the same machinery and personnel used in the construction of oceangoing vessels.

Calaveras already has completed the construction of nerv cement storage silos and new slurry tanks which are a part of the overall expansion program. A new tertiary crusher went into operation last month.

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By L, A, Beckstrom, Sr., Co-Outner, Arcad,ia ( Cali.fornia ) Lurnber Company

The subject of piece prices of lumber may not interest all of you because at present they apply only to the counter trade, the pick-up trade or the shoulder trade, whichever you wish to call it.

Most people who buy small quantities of lumber are not familiar with the computation of lumber contents nor the method of converting tlie price per thousand into the price per piece, but many buyers are interested in what a certain number of pieces of lumber will cost before they make a purchase, and it is quite understandable that the ordinary layman could be confused if he were quoted. a price of $130.00 per M BM for 2 pcs. lx4 12' Average No. 1 Common Douglas Fir; on the other hand, if he were told that 1 piece 1x4 12' would cost him 52 cents, he would not be startled by the mention of $130.00 per M but he would have a clear and definite amount to consider instead of an ambiguous price per M feet.

It is not a matter of trying to mislead the buyer by not mentioning the price per M, because we "ivould gladly do so except that in most cases the price per M is not readily understood and too often frightens a buyer to the extent of reducing his purchase. It really seems sort of silly to quote a buyer on a thousand feet when he is asking for a price on two or three pieces only, and it should be quite perplexing for a buyer to watch you going through the mechanics of figuring 1 pc. 1x8 1d at $130.0O per M and come up with an answer of $1.43. (ll' @ $130.)

(The folloaitag interesting, and often challen.gi,ng, talh zuas delivered by I/eteran Lwmber Dealer Bechstrom ot a conference of tl'te Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Other su,ch talhs, from conferences and elsezul'tere-or sim,ilar items on dealer problem.s and practices, will be featuretl frequently in the colwmns of The CALIFORNIA I-LIXIBEI? MERCHANT.)

There is also the element of error to consider rt'hen each counter sale is figured on the basis of price per N[ and you are too busy or don't take time to check extensions; horvever, in the case of piece prices, each item has been figured and checked in advance, u'hich eliminates many rnistakes and also saves much time.

This time-saving feature is very important and especially so on a busy Saturday mor,ning when the weekend ca,rpenters often wait in line for a few pieces of lumber.

Let's'take a typical counter sale and figure it by the old per M foot method and also by the piece price, and compare the time involved in both procedures u'ithout taking time to check the extensions in the per M foot method :

5 pieces 2x4 8 Average No. 1 Com DF S 4 S

4 pieces lx4 10 Const. Ht. Ited Rough

I piece 1x10 i4 C&B DF VG S 4 S Dry

1 piece 4x4 lO Ave. No. 1 Com DF S 4 S

2 pieces 2x8 8 Ave. No. 1 Com DF S 4 S

The answers should come within a few cents of each other but will vary because the per-piece prices are figured on the exact lumber contents, while the per M result will be figured on the nearest foot by adding or dropping the fraction more or less than one-half.

We have used piece prices on all Douglas Fir, Redwood and Pine lumber for about six months and, beyond a doubt, it has proven highly satisfactory; we are using these piece

Arcodio Lumber Co.Holds Demonsfrofion of WoodTope

The Arcadia (California) Lumber Company held a public demonstration of the versatile new plywood edging, WoodTape, in the store ofits recently remodeled yard on Saturday, January 1'1. Showing the yard's customers how-todo-it was George Rice of Southrvest Plywoocl Corp., Inglewood, Calif., ttsing samples and species of the outstanding nerv product from the firm's warehouse stocks, according to Jack Pollard, headman oi Southwest Plywood.

The Arcadia retail yard, operated by L. A. Beckstrom, Sr., is a modern merchandising operation and holds frequent classes and demonstrations for its customers (see accompanving photo).

WoodTape, as CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT readers knorv (see front cover ads of this issue and also November 15), requires no clamping or glueing and comes in six difierent rvood finishes up to two inches.

ONE OF THE HOME.HANDYTIiAN CIASSES conductod by the Arcodia lumber Compony. Ihir onG wo3 held tqct summer over o period of three months on rcaulor nighb eoch wcek. Equipment qnd Products, os wcll oi in3kuclon, csme from indurtry ftrmr cnd yord; nolo mortcd rpccicr of ponclr in binr.

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prices on all sales except house jobs, although rve find it necessary to use the per M price when pricing tickets where lineal quantities are involved or if the list includes a board measure quantity.

You may say that it is too much work to make up pieceprice lists, but unless the .ivholesale market makes a very substantial change it is not necessary to change these lists often, because rvhen you add a 50/. mark-up to your lumber costs, the ordinary fluctuations in the wholesale market rvill not materially affect your piece prices, and it certainly is not too much work to refigure these prices once or twice a year, especially when you consider that these infrequent price changes u'ill be more than offset by the saving of time and avoidance of loss through errors in extension.

I mentioned a 50o/o mark-up on counter sales, and if you are getting less than this mark-up, you are not getting enough for this type of busi,ness and you will soon learn why if you follow a few of these transactions through to completion; there are several factors to consider in adding your mark-up, such as tur,nover, etc., but the counter trade involves high direct costs on practically every transaction, and a 50o/o matk-up will only represent a fair return on the rvhole.

While on the subject of prices, it would be interesting to examine some selling prices on larger quantities, which have been quoted in the recent past and undoubtedly would 'show an utter'disregard of costs if grades, as cluoted, were delivered, but those who quote such outlandish prices also

know that top grades cannot be furnished at a profit and the only out is to substitute inferior grades.

Personally, I can't see any value in maintaining a lumber dealers' association u'l.ren its members resort to devious practices in order to produce sales with only temporary benefits to the individual yard, when instead members should be doing all possible to promote more intelligent uses of lumber by educating the buying public with a better conception of prevailing grades.

I am not against using lower grades of lumber wherever they are suitable, particularly if it will help to keep the construction costs down.

We can help both the builders and the sawmills if we encourage the use of the lower grades, provided structural values are not, sacrificed.

This practice will be followed more and.more as timber becomes less plentiful and, through necessity, more thought will be given to the consumption of lower grades for more uses; however, the lower grades should be sold as such and should not be substituted for higher grades without the knowledge of the buyer; such a practice is an injustice to the buyer and a discredit to the industry.

I have strayed from the subject of piece prices, but socalled "salting of grades" affects both large and small yards and, while many yards are not resorting to these tactics, the wiCe spread in prices is difficult to explain at times, and after deliveries have been made, it is too late; on the other hand, the yards who follow this practice have no permanent

advantage over a similar yard, although they can increase ' the percentage of lower grades until the saturation point is reached, and then what ?

I have no bone to pick with dealers who make low prices, because either they have an edge of some kind by which they can do business cheaper, or otherwise they will soon eliminate themselves through .continued losses, but I am concerned when competitors quote on a list of respectable grades of lumber but their prices indicate that they have no intention of furnishing the grades listed.

I would welcome remarks and questions from the floor.

PONDEROSA PINE . SUGAR PINE

DOUGLAS FIR . WHITE FIR

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Mouldings and lnterior Trim

Jambs . Frames . lncense Cedar

Venetian Blind Slats . Glued-up Panels

Cut Stock . Box'Shook

(lUR SPTCIATTY . IIIIIEI| CARS TO IHE IRADE

ANDY EECKSIROM, Jl. (lefi), 1,. A. Bcckstrom, Sr., outhor df lhe occompony' inE orticle (center), qnd Eric Beckslrom mopping o roles compoign on mcrchondise in the recently remodeled rlorc of thcir progressive Arcodic yord.

Mills at Anderson, Red Bluff, Castella & Wildwood, California

Kids Are Kings Agoin ot Another Wondedul Son Froncisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 Christmcrs Porty

Over 220 members of the San Francisco Bay area lumber fraternity-including rvives, guests, secretaries and HooHoo-Ette msrnbsls-turned out for the annual San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 Christmas Party, held this season at the St. Francis 1-rotel. The big gathering, n'hich honored 51 boys and girls from the San Francisco Boys Club, r,vas pronounced a grand success by not only the lumber fraternity but, especially, by the honored guests from the Boys Club.

SANIA'S HETPER (Ed Dreesren) ond Ssnto himself (B9n Word) do lheir rtufr for one of the 5l kids or rhe 9 Club's 1955 Christmor porry (lefr). Ihe lumbermen who govc their lime for the porfy's success ore, left ro righr (kneeling) Fred Ziese, Jock Dollcr, leroy McCormick. Stonding l. to r.: Hcc Collins. Ed Dreessen, Jim Hqll, Jr.. Eill Bonnell. Dick McKonnoy, 8ob Nelron, Ben Word.

PIX ON OPPOSIIE PAGE show .(center) the Bonnell-WordKnopp gong oul in force: Morrie Greenlcw, Bill Bonnell ond Ben Word (before costume); lop right: Mrs. Scroh lundblqd, Arccto Redwood; Woh Boiloy, Wesl Coost Foresi Productr Co., snd his 3ecretoly, Mrs. Ello Curto. Orhcr pix show the hcppy kids (thonks fo Hoo-Hoo) ond enlerloinmenl they :taged.

(Phoros by Joct Dollor, the Robert Dollsr Co.)

Facilities for the grown-ups were excellent and included a private room for cocktails and renewing of old acquaintances prior to the children's party. But the kids were king that day, and every effort was made to make them feel right at home and enjoy their outing.

Prior to receiving their presents, the children were treated to a big Christmas dinner. San Francisco's own Ben lVard, dressed in the customary St. Nick outfit, then made his longau'aited appearance and passed out individually addressed

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. DOUGTAS FIR

. PONDEROSA PINE

. WESTERN RED CEDAR

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FIR.TEX HARDBOARD

. FIR-TEX ROOFDEK

. FIR.TEX SHEATHING

DOUGLAS FtR PTYWOOD

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O PONDEROSA PINE

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O ROOFING

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presents to each of the deserving kids.

Santa was easily the most popular guy in the room that day; however, a close second was Ffomer F. Snow, with his troupe of "Musical Marine Movie Stars," starring Sandi and Cindi Sea Lion, Perri Pelican and Penni Penguin. The show, which u'as hand-picked bv Ed Dreessen, was a grand slam with both the children and the adults.

In addition to Club 9 President Al Bell and the Christmas Party general chairman, llac Collins, the following ,men deserve a big vote of thanks for their hard work on the worthy annual project: '

Gift Committee: Jim Hall, J,r., Bovard Shibley, Bert Hasselberg, Jim Knox; Decorations: Bob Nelson, Bill Buettner and Mack Giles; Banquet: Fred Buckley and Paul Overend; Publicity: Jack Dollar, Bill McCubbin and "Sti" Stibich ; Tree Committee: Dick McKannay and Art Grey; Transportation: Fred Ziese and Lew Godard; Finance: Leroy McCormick and Charlie Schober; Tickets : Bill Bonnell, Johnny Prime and Bob Kilgore; Entertainment: Ed Dreessen and Harry Lowell.

New $2r/z-Billion Building Record for Southern Colifornio in 1955

Southern California rang up a new, all-time record building year in 1955 despite a year-end tapering-off due to the aggregate industries shutdown caused by the teamsters' strike and a slight pinch from the national credit restrictions. The nerv record figure is close to $2,500,000,000-a great new annual record.

Building permits in 75 southland cities totaled $1,338,276,135 (compared to $1,101,294,824 in 1954) and permits in the unincorporated areas of nine southland counties r,vas $667,935,676 (compared to $598,085,756 the preceding year). The building permit total is expected to come to about $2,150,000,000 and the heavy-construction contracts to an estimated $295,000,000, while school building, for r,vhich no permits are required, was estimated at $21 million-forming the grand total of $2,465,000,000, which may be revised upward.

The December 1955 permits lor 66 representative communities plus the nine county aieas, as reported by the Research department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, was $120,044,449-the southland's lowest monthly total since February 1954, down from November's $123,787,M6, and far below the $153,689,907 of December 1954.

The year 1955 ran strong from the start and ran up amazing totals from March to September, when a downward trend set in to continue the balance of the year. Even so, at the end of October permit valuation had passed.the previous entire year 7954 and pegged a new record in only 10 months because of the strong start. Nine of the 12 months last year set new records for their months, and Nfarch's $199,216,241 set a new high for any month in building history.

Los Angeles city, with a 12'-months total of $436,455,985, set a new annual record (previous high was $430,000,000 in 1953) ; its December 1955 figure was $32,212,870. Los Angeles county also chalked up its "greatest l2-months total : $365,585,655,.against $348,015,f32 in 1954. The county's December 1955 total was $20,800,665.

Coldor Lumber Co. Milling Philippine Mqhogony logs ln Unique Northern Colifornicr Experiment

A mill run of (r50,00O feet of Philippine mahogany logs was completed Monday, December 5, at the plant of the Caldor Lumber Company, Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, California, in one of the most unique experiments ever made in Northern California. The big logs, averaging 860 feet as against the California sau'mill average of 550 feet, traveled over 8,@0 miles via the great circle sea route, arriving at the Port of Stocl<ton three rveeks earlier.

C. G. Price, general manager of the century-old company, which heretofore had sau'ed only the native Pacific Coast pine and fir, said the Lauan krgs, commonly knorvn as Philippine mahogany, u'ill be sarved into dimensional lumber and marketed through the regular trade channels. A great deal of this finished lumber now coming to the coast is processed in Japan.

Lumber will be manufactured in as rvide rvidths as the logs rvill permit, put in the yard to dry for trn"'o months, and then finished by kiln drying. At present there is a good market in the U. S. for interior finish, moulding cabinet work, furniture and in pleasure-boat building.

"We have many technical problems to lick," Price said, "but if this proves successful rve 'ivill ship and manufacture into lumber about a million feet of Philippine mahogany a month."

The 'lvell-established Caldor Lumber Company, rvhich started shortly after the great California Gold Rush, has manufactured annually an average of about 24,000,000 board

feet of Pacific Slope timber. Great local and county-r'ide interest has been aroused in the unusual experinrent in turning to the r,voods of Southeast Asia.

Success of the ,new operation might well mean whether the large plant will discontinue or seriously curtail operations. This is due to the diminishing supply of sawtimber in the extensive Caldor private holdings, Price said.

The smooth peeled logs, rvhich had been sprayed before shipment rvith DDT, range from three to over six feet in diameter, and average about 17 feet in length. Various methods of logging are used, ranging from the most primitive hand and animal (caribao) operation to tl.re donkel' engine and sky line, or high lead system, to the most up-todate D-B's and high porvered Anrerican diesels.

The large shipment arrived from Davoa, Nlindanao, at the Port of Stockton on the California Bear of the Far East Lines and rvas transported to the mill pond at the Caldor plant on 58 railroad gondolas.

The lauan timber, of ivhich this shipment r,r'as about half red variety and half u'hite species, has the native classification in Group Three and has the wide range of uses lending itself to maximum cutting utility, probably better than any hardwood in its class, Price said.

Lands from rvhich the timber is cut is over 97/o g'overnment owned and, according to the U. S. Forest Service Department of Agriculture Bulletin, this amounts to nearly 43,000,000 acres or an area a little more than tu'o-thirds of

A NEW STAR ts BORN

FIRSI OF THE Blc PHIIIPPINE LOGS up the chqin fron the millpond ql the Caldor Lumber Co., Diomond Springs, Colif. (lefr). Shipment orrived from Mindonao ond wos fron3porled to Coldor on 58 roilroqd gondolos. lf lhe experimenl proves oul, compony plonr to impod obout q nillion feel o month for processing. Scene ot righil shows C. G. Price (cenler) wotching unlooding; Williqm Henderson (lefi) is superintendenl ond Everell Turnboo, ot right, o worker. The 650,000-feer run ftnished December 5 wos first of lwo experimentol shipments; onother million feet of logs wor due lo qrrive in mid-Jonuary.

the National Forest area of rvestern United States' The timber stand of all species, including the lauans, has been placed at 445,931,194,000 board feet.

Commercial lauans, Price said, generally range from 20 to 40 inches in diameter, although trees of five to over six feet are common. In height they range from 60 to 100 feet,

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lf is bocked byo Fine Selection of SOFIWOOD PTYWOOD

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A COMPTETE INVENTORY OF AtL SPECIES, DESIGNS ond WPES OF DOORS-HARDBOARDS- INSU LATION BOARD- PIASTIC-speciolly desisned WAtt PANEIING of qll kinds-ETCHWOOD-ETCHWAttRANDOM WAtL ond others.

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WESIERN PINE 1955 RECORDS SET; END-OF.YEAR STOWDOWN NOTED

Portland, January 2A-For the second consecutive year the nation's \\restern Pine industry set all-time high records during 1955 for production ancl consumption, the Western Pine Ass<-rciation announced. But encl-of-year slol-dorvns both in output and demand dropped the year's last quarter figures belou' those of the same period a year ago and are expected to do the same for the coming three months.

S. V. Fullau'ay, Jr., the association's secretary-manager, said preliminary estimates sho'n. industry mills shipped about 8,625,0C0,000 board feet during the past 12 months, ttp 7/o from 1954's 8,064,C00,000 board feet. At the same tinre, the mills produced 8,678,000,000 board feet,9.I/c more than 1954's record-breaking 7.953 O30,CCC board fcet.

SURE-f....,',:

For the three-month period just concluded, Fullau'ay said, sl.riprnents u.ere 5.1/o less than those for the same quarter in 1954, and production rvas otr 1.5/c. He attributed the declines to restricted mortgage credit, severe winter conditions in some areas ancl flood conditions in others.

"Predictions of an unusually cold rvinter for the country as a 'whole," Fullan'ay noted, "could also slot' construction during the first quarter."

Based on such factors and other available information, the lumberman said estimates shor,v Western Pine region shipment figures for the first tl.rree months of 1956 rvill prciltably be about 1,675,000,030 or 8% off the pace for the same quarter a year ago.

Each year 7,500,000 Sitka spruce fir seerllings are raised and planted in and a rnillion Douglas Wales, England.

Home Builders Insfoll

Ner,r' officers of the Home Builders Institutc rvere installed at the recent dinner meeting at the Beverly Hilton hotel, Los Angeles, and a delegation, headed by President R. Reese Myers, planned to leave or-r a special section of the Santa Fe Super Chief for the NAHR convention in Chicago January 22-26. \[c:st <if the new 49-man boarcl of directors also u'ent east for the shorv.

Alwoys Meeting Your Highest Stondords

Other olficers installed l.ere Charles \\,'. Getchell and George N{. l)ardee, Jr., first ar-rd second vice-presider-rts; Milton J. l3rock, Jr., secretary, and John D. Grilfith, treasllrer. More than 500 builders ar-rd government officials attended the dinner.

Toastrnaster ]Jrock, Sr., lifetime member of the NAHB board and a former NAHB president, said southland delegates u'ould go to the convention u'ith a record of one million nerv homes completed in the past 15 vears. Retiring HBI Presiclent \\ralter \\r. Keusder reported a n.rembership gain tfi 92 tn the year.

HPrincip:r'l speaker at the installation \\.as Frank Crirtright, another past executive <lirector of the National ancl norv an active C:rlifornia builder. "In other large cities .n'hcre builders are proucl of a total of 7,000 r.rcu, homes a year, they are nnbeiieving u'hcn thcy hezrr Los Angeles builders constructecl 107,000 neu. dwelling units in 1955," he sairl.

"Within the next 30 yearrs, at our lrrcscrrt rate oi growth, \\,e can expect to har.c one-fifth of the national popu!:Ltion living in California," he declared.

Servente on Committee

Louis Servente of the Serverrtc Hardn'orxl Company, San Francisco, has been appointerl to the NHLA Lrspection Rules conrmittee ior 1956, made up of 12 experience<l harcln'oocl men of the various districts ancl species. Together rvith the chairman, the1. n'ill pass upon Rules suggestions, if any, for presentation to the 1956 convention.

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AN EARTY TUMBER YARD

(ln Seltember 1913, Iack Dionne was elected Secretary and, Manager of The Lumbermen's Association of Teras. Early in 1913 he began publi.shing THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN. In one of tke first issues of that magaaine appeared a rltyme he zurote after loohing at a lot of small tozun lwmber ^tards of th,at feriod. This is the rhyme):

One bundle of Cypress shingles to sit on, One bushel of clealn, sharp sand to spit on; One piece of siding, No. 3 kiln dried, One bundle of lath with the strings untied; A two by four and a two by six, A piece of moulding, a dozen bricks, A sack of lime spilled on the floor, A bag of cement to prop the door; A roll of roofing, upside down, A can of paint marked "Leather Brown;" A cottage door, embalmed in dust, A stair rail covered with dirt and must; A gable sash with the nutty out, A "att of turps with a leaky spout; A keg of na,ils and a box of tacks, A can of stain and a pound of wax; An inside lock with the bolt too tight, A beveled transom, a crack in the light; A couple of chairs with bottoms hard, In the office of a lumber vard.

Hollcnd ond Moloney Esfoblish Confinenfql Lumber Soles, Inc.

L. J. "Lou" Holland and P. P. "Peyt" Maloney, wellknown Southern California wholesale lumbermen, have established offices for their Continental Lumber Sales. Inc.. at 2455 Huntington Drive, San Marino, California. The firm will specialize in direct mill shipments via cargo, rail and truck-and-trailer, serving retail lumber dealers throughout the southwestern area. The phone number for the new company is RYan 1-5681.

Holland and Maloney have been active in wholesale lumber sales in Los Angeles for many years, and have reliable mill connections throughout Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Both men are members of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 and prominent in civic and social affairs in Burbank and Whittier.

Oregon Shosts Lumber Co. Sold

Yreka, Calif.-Richard Reynen, executive partner of the Fir Milling and Planing Co., Ashland, Ore., and L. E. Edmonds of Medford, former lumber mill owner there, have purchased all physical assets of the Oregon Shasta Lumber Company here effective January 15. They will form a new California corporation, the Edmonds-Reynen Lumber Co., Yreka, to operate the former properties, with Reynen as president and Edmonds secretary-treasurer to actively supervise the Yreka plant. They will improve the sawmill and planing mill. Included were the timber holdings, and Reynen reports the sawmill will be operated for an annual production of about 12 million BF per year. The Oregon Shasta plant was less than five years old.

Redwood

GEOR,GE

ABRAHAM LINCOtN...

sThese lwo greot Americons wereborn in the month of Februory. George Woshington, our first presidenf, on rhe 22nd-qnd Abrohqm Lincoln, our l6th presidenf' on the l2th. Borh irf lhese fine gentlemen did everyrhing in rheir power lo protecr the solid future of the Unired Slqles. Horqce Greeley, the fqmous editor, wqs qlso born during lhis second month of the yesr, qnd his odvice: "Go Wesl, young hron' go wesf" no doubt helped ro build this greot frontier. We qre proud roployo port in thisdevelopment-qnd we look towqrd the future with confidence.

When q Mcn ls Free

There was a certain man who was a slave. At four o'clock in the morning he was awakened by his master and told to do the chores. He got out of bed with a heart full of bitterness, apd dragged rebellious feet to the barns, where he fed the horses and milked the cows by the light of a dingy lantern.

Before the sun was up he was afield with a plow, turning furrows to which he gave no thought. His eyes were dull, his shoulders stooped, he was sullen. At noon he stopped to eat; at night he went back to the barns where merciful darkness brought him promise of rest. Again he milked the cows and fed the horses; and when he had satisfied his own hunger, went morosely to bed to mutter in his sleep against tL:e tyranny that chained him to menial tasks.

One day his master died and was buried and the slave inherited the farm, as the law provided. He was no longer a slave, but a citizen. At four o'clock the next morning he was awakened by the crowing of cocks. He dressed hurriedly and started for the barns to feed the horses and milk the cows. On the way he stopped to breathe deeply of the scented breeze that came out of the East. At the barns he sang among the astonished cattle. Before the sun came up he was plowing and listening to the birds that sang in the hedgerows. He rested at noon, but his labors were not finished until twilight drove him from the fields to milk and feed. He was tired, but his heart was light. He ate heartily, sat on the porch a, little while to enjoy the peace of a starlight night, and went gratefully to bed. His eyes closed. He relaxed. Sleep was upon him. But before he lost consciousness, he smiled in complete contentmeot, and murmured, "It has been a wonderful day. What a blessed privilege to do as one pleases."

-Robert Quillen.

Epiroph to o Bee

Here sleeps, well recognized for sterling merit, A citizen of worth and public spirit.

Successful |n his chosen field was he, Day after day his golden wealth amassing, And gave mankind his splendid service free, And left the world the poorer for his passing.

She Misunderstood Him

When the news got around the farming center that Bill, who was awfully poor and moreover lisped badly, was going to marry one of the best-looking girls and likewise one of the most ambitious in the neighborhood, the folks just couldn't understand how he had prevailed on her to accept him. When his closest friend asked him he explained it like this:

"You thee, it wath thith way. I had been going to thee her for thum time, arnd I made up my mind to thay thumpthing or busth my thuthpenders tryin. Tho one night I that

down by her and thee began telling me how rich her father wath. Finally I thaid, 'Lithie, I ain't ath rich ath your pap, but I've got thix thows an pigs on my farm.' Then thee fell on my chest an I knowed thee wath mine. You thee, thee thought I thaid thix thousand pigs, but I only thaid thix thows and pigs."

Lqurcr

My Laurais eyes are bright blue stars, A peach's down doth seem her skin, My Laura's mouth doth frame a kiss, A dimple flirts upon her chin.

My Laura's hair is milky night, Twin blossoms peer, eartips begi.n, My Laura's mind is crystal clear, No cloudy thought doth enter in. My Laura's soul is white as snow, But her fingernails are red as sin.

Fronk Criric

Real Estate Agent: "Well, what do you think of our little city ?"

Visitor: "Well, I'll tell you, friend, this is the first cemetery I ever saw with bright lights."

Dumqs on Writing

Alexapder Dumas said that a book should be like a dinner-it should have an appetizer first. He meant that the book should begin by greatly interesting the'reader right at the first, instead of wearying him. Once he gets the reader interested he can do the necessary slowing up. Dumas judged others by himself, looked upon himself as an average human and an average reader, figured that what entertained him would entertain others, and what bored him, bored others. Thus he wrote the world's most interesting stories.

Three Wise lVlen

Three young boys, age ten, twelve and fourteen, found a bottle. The older boy pulled the cork, smelled the contents, tasted it, and casually remarked-"Whiskey." The twelveyear old boy took the bottle, tasted the contents, and sa,id"Scotch." The ten-year old took the bottle, tasted the contents and, as a look of disappointment spread over his face, remarked-"CItT."

The First Greot Bqnker

The first great money king of the modern world was the son of a _Iewish merchant in Frankfort. His name was Meyer Bauer. Although educated for the synagogue, he became e mon€! lender in 1743. The signboard over his father's shop was a red shield. Wishing to change his name the young moneylender changed his name to "Red Shield,', which, in English, is Rothschild. He was the parent of the great banking house of that name.

1"ng bi*ention"

or other DOUGTAS FIR items

To: MR. LUMBER DEALER

Re: New Name of HELMS-BROWN LUMBER COMPANY

From: Stan Helms, Frank Brown and Sam lt'litzel

Due to an increasing amount of confusion resulting fron the sim- ilarity between the nane of our firm and the names of other whole- sale lunber concerns, we feel it best to return to the use of our original firm name, effective February 15, 1956.

We know that the lumber business is qulte confusing enough without adding to it, and we do look forward to being able to continue servicing your inquiries to the best of'our ability. Remenber, no- thing el-se is changed--j ust the name.

Slncerely,

Stan, Frank and Sam

Hoo-Hoo-Ettes See A-Bomb Slides; Plqn 'Bosses Night' This Month

Members of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1 met at 6:D p.m., January 9, at Srvally's Key Club in Los Angeles. Leland Weaver, coordinator for Civilian Defense Operations, gave an interesting narration and showed colored slides taken of Survival City at Yucca Flats in Nevada before and after the A-Bomb test last spring.

The program committee, headed by Alma Christian of Mox Wrecking Co., announced that plans rvere being rnade for "Bosses Night" on February 13 at the Rodger Young auditorium. All members were urged to invite their bosses to be guests for the evening.

Plans for the Educational Seminar are being completed by Elsie Stirling and enrollment for weekly classes was

taken. The Seminar will be open to all rvomen in the lumber industry and is not limited to the Hoo-Hoo-Ettes. Starting date'ivill be announced later.

Ruth Armand, Corinne Adams and Betty Nforrill, all of E. J. Stanton & Son, celebrated birthdays and 'ivere extended greetings by the club, along with Mildred Evans, Lindsey Lumber Co., r,vho drer,v the birthday prize, and Elizabeth Demetri of the Alley Lumber Co. Frieda Butterfield, Mullin Lumber Co., u'on the door prize f.or the evening.

The Hoo-Hoo-Ettes 'ivould like to thank the Pine Ridge Lumber Co. and Eullale Matich for the beautiful Christmas tree donated for their annual party in December.

A 26-year old West Coast herrlock plantation in Wales, England, averages 60 feet high.

EilGEtilAilil uallty SPRACE

Gl Down Poyments Guf

Washington, D.C.-The g'overnment has eased down payments for servicemen buying housing with FHA-insured mortgages. Commissioner Mason has ordered removed the additional 2/o doln payment added last July, making the initial payment again only Sc/o. The GI will still, however, have the ZS-year payoff period instead of the former 30-year term.

Mortgages approved under theGI loan terms have been running only about 1,000 a month, and only about one-third of those for nerv homes.

New Hqrbor Areo Record

PROIUIPT SIIIPME]IT

Smoll tight knots qnd fine lexture . . coupled with selective monufocture ond thorough kiln drying yield o product of exceptionol quolily. WE ARE FUTLY PREPARED TO SUPPLY TARGE QUANTITIES OF THIS STOCK MANUFACTURED TO OUR OWN PATTERNS, THUS GUARANTEEING A STEADY SUPPLY OF CONSISTENT QUATITY AND PATTERN. This is why todoy, when you think of decking, think of BLACK DIAMOND firsr !

Exclueive Sores Agenls in Colilornia lor:.

POST FALLS tUtlBER CO., Spokqne, Wcshington

Exclusive Soles Agenfs in Northern Calilornia ton

KOGAP TUMBER CO., Medford, C)regon

ALSO OIHER WEST COAST WOODS

Ner,vport Beach, Calif.-Harbor area construction in 1955 set the all-time record, r'r'ith this city and Costa Nlesa exceeding $20 million. December rvas the sixth million-dollar month of the year in Costa Mesa, bringing its total permit valuation to $10,629,020, an iucrease ol 155/o over the previous year; while Newport Beach's plus-million December figure brought its year to $9,956,819, more than $1 million over the '54 figure.

NHLA Membership of 1600

Chicago-The membership of the National Hardwood Lumber Association totaled 1600 at the close of the fiscal year, consisting of 1308 active and 292 associate members, of rvhich 228 are Canadian firms. Compared rvith a year ago, membership declined by 71 even though 98 nerv members rvere obtained, dLrc largely to merger absorptions and earlier retirements of hardn'ood men.

$9OO,OOO-per-Mile High wcry

State engineers said it vuould cost about $900,000 per mile to construct a four-lane freen'ay of U. S. 101, bypassing the southern Humboldt county redrvoods as much as possible. Work has begun on 23 repair jobs in Humbr-ildt county's road system.

Bqrtletf Appoinred Vice-President of Pqcific Wood Products Compony

R. S. (Dick) Bartlett, formerly president of Davidson Plylr'ood, Los Angeles, which position he resigned last month, has been named vice-president in charge of sales for Pacific Wood Products Company, according to Jack and Norman Davidson, executive officers of Pacific Wood Products Co.

Bartlett's nerv position 'ivill entail considerable travel as he will be establishing sales offices for Pacific Wood Products in Nerv York, Chicago and other major cities throughout the United States, offering the firm's new specialty items, Random Plank and Parkay Ply, along u'ith other imports from around the rvorld.

Cedqr Siding Development Progrom

Western Red Cedar Siding will be the subject of a research program this year in which the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association will make fund grants to determine the best methods of application and surfacing. The program will be directed by Clark C. Heritage of Tacoma, Wash.

Allos Nqmes Two Sqles Monogers

Boston, Mass.-Charles H. Abbott has joined Atlas Plyrvood Corporation as sales mana€Jer of the Door and Panel division, and Alfred M. Blakesley has been appointed sales manager of the company's Container division.

T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant February 1,1931

J. A. Brush of the W. Leo E,. Hubbard of the Company, Los Angeles, Lumbermen's American

E. Cooper Lumber Company, and Hayward Lumber & Investment are a committee organizing. the Legion Post in Los Angeles.

C. D. Terrvilliger, general manager of the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, California, has been elected president of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, at a meeting held in the Palace hotel, San Francisco, January 9.

R. F'. Hammatt, for the past ten years of the California Redwood Association, position effective Jan. 31.

secretary-manager has resigned that

Eugene T..Perry of San Francisco died in that city January 15, age 58. He was an officer of the John A. Hooper Lumber Company, the Valley Lumber Company, and the Stockton Lumber Company.

The Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club held its annual

meeting at Salinas, elected, with George

January 19. A11 the officers were reLey of Santa Cruz, president.

Edric E. Brown, who for The Pacific Lumber the San Francisco office

has been Nerv York sales manager Compar-ry, has been transferred to effective at once.

Jack Thomas, who has represented the Coos Bay Lumber Company in the Los Angeles district for years, has been transferred to San Francisco, and his friends in Los Angeles gave him a big lunch party at the Jonathan Club.

Mrs. W. G. Kerckhoff of Los Angeles has presented Kerckhoff Hall to UCLA in Los Angeles as a memorial to her husband, the late W. G. Kerckhoff of the KerckhoffCuzner Mill & Lumber Companv.

W. B. Dean of Chico, California, who has been general manager of the Diamond Match Company lumber department for years, has been elevated to the offrce of vice-president of the comoanv.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Dinner Donce

Febnuory 24 ot elock Counfry Club

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GOOD-HOO-HOO Alt-(qbove) Worren Peterson; Dorothy Gcyeske, Wesleln Lumber Co.; Bill Seeley; Rose Mory Burnelt; Perry Srnith, qnd Aletq Cormer, Poini Lomo LUmber Co. Cenler scene shows the now-fcmous Son Diego HooHoo Quodet in vocol oction; left to righr, John Nikkel. Perry Smirh. Bill Seeley qnd Worren Pelerson. Exomining his "grond door prize" ot tha right i: Perry S'mifh; combinqtion door wqs donoted by Dovidson Plywood Co.

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo Gluqrtet Hqs to 'Beg Off' ot Hoo-Hoo-Ettes' PortY

Members of San Diego Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 4 and their guests met for the annual Christmas party at 6:30 p.m. in .Park Manor hotel this season.

After dinner the Hoo-Hoo Quartet entertained rvith a variety of songs and were not permitted to rest till they insisted they "knew no more." Members of the quartet are John Nikkel of Empire Lumber Sales, Perry Smith of Solana Cedar & Milling Co., and Warren Peterson and Bill Seeley of Dixie Lumber Co.

Lucky names drawn for door prizes included Jack Roberts of American Products, Irving Weiss of American Mill & Mfg. Co., Rosemary Burnett of American Products, Doris Weiss of Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Warren Peterson of Dixie Lumber Co., John Nikkel, Bill Seeley, Chuck Pease of the U. S. Navy, and guests McKenney and Gayeske' Perry Smith 'ivon the "grand door prize," a combination door donated by Davidson Plyvvood Co.

After singing Christmas carols, the group adjourned till its first 1956 meeting.

| 955 Construction Hits New R.ecord

Washington, D.C.-The Department of Cor.nmerce said January B that spending for nerv construction in 1955 hit a nerv high of $42,250,000,000, the ninth consecutive recordmaking year, rvith a l2/o higher total dollar value than 1954.

A sharp rise in home-building lvas the biggest single factor in setting the 1955 record, said the joint Commerce and Labor Departments statement. Increased residential building accounted for tr,vo-thirds of the total dollar gain of some $4,750,000,000 over 1954. Private residentiai building accounted for a new record of $16,6O0,000,000 in 1955' nearly 25/o above 1954.

SIDING

In lapped, grooved and plain styles. Lasts longer, looks betterl

BOATS

Rugged P.T. boats are made of Harborite,.. ideal for all marine uses.

SOFFITS AND GABTES

Workability of Harborite makes easy to cut to irregular shapes. II

INIERIOR PANETING

For rooms that get hard wear. ldeal in dens, playrooms, clubs, etc.

HARBORITE

the miracle overlaid fir plywood-super-resistant t0 wear, weather and tvater

SIGNS AND DISPTAYS

Tests orove Harborite suoerior to aluminum, steel, f iber-glass, etc.

CONCRETE FORMS

Lowest cost 0er-foot-0er-use. Re-uses run 30 to 40 per panel.

KIICHEN CABINETS AND BUItT.INS

Finishes beautifully for cabinets, built-ins, doors, paneling, etc.

INDUSTRIAT USES

Resistant to abrasion and chemicals. For truck bodies, freight cars, etc.

HARBORITE

AVAIlABlE IN UNI.IMITED QUANTITIES...AND REDUCED 2OT* NOW COMPETITIVE WITH FINESI INARINE TYPT TIR PTYWOODS

For fifteen years, production of Harborite, the lumber industry's first and finest overiaid fir plywood, has gone almost exclusively to the United States Government for the production of P.T. boats and landing craft. Now, new production techniques makes Harborite available in unlimited quantities for civilian use ...at a warehouse price reduced approximately 20% (prices vary slightly depending on area.) This super strong, light-weight, structural panel has miraculous weather-proof, split-proof, check-proof qualities.

rworehouse prices vory slightly in eqch morkel'

Harborite's hard, smooth, grainless face is the perfect paint-holding surface; grain-raise problems are minimized. Harborite is stronger than steel .. super-resistant to wea!. and impervious to weather and moisture. Harborite will last a lifetime. These large, lightweight panels are easy to handle, wonderfully easy to work. Use of Harborite cuts time and labor costs to the bone ! Cuts paint costs too ! Harborite's absorption-resistant surface uses less paint...yet paintfinish lasts longer... looks better!

The Government specifies vast quantities of Harborite here's why!

1. 0nly select Douglas Fir veneers are used in Harboriie.

2. Core veneer strips are machine-edged and butted tight.

3. All solid wood-no core voids-no flaws.

4. Harbor-developed waterproof glue makes a permanent weld.

5. Core panels are rehumidified to minimize warping and grain-raise.

6. Harborite's resin-impregnated overlay makes a perfect paint-holding surface.

HARBORITE

the Royal Family of Plautoods!

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Sales Offices and subsid.iaries in.., ABERDEEN, Washington, P.0. Box 940, Phone 221

AILANTA, 0eorgia, ll61 Ridge Ave., SW, LA 0215

CHICAG(), lllinois, 1444 W. Cermak Rd., CA 6-0134

ClNClNt{ATl, 0hio, 511 Baymiller St., MA l-2797

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tO 1955. Horbor

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Almost 1.330.000 nonfarm homes were started in 1955, the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau oi Labor Statistics announced. Housing starts in 1955 were second only to the record 1,396,000 units in 1950 and were 9/o higher than in 1954. The seasonally adjusted rate has declined each month since September 1955, but averaged over 1.2 million units in the last three months of 1955. This 'rvas the highest fourthquarter rate in any year except 1954, when builders were taking advzintage of the substantially increased supply of mortgage funds available on favorable terms. Of the units started in 1955, almost 1,311,000 r.vere privately owned and 19,000 rvere in public housing projects. More privately owned l-family houses were started in 1955 than in any previous year-not excepting 1950..

Offer Deqler Aids for OHI

To encourage lumber dealers' all-out participation in Operation Home Improvement, Masonitems, the house organ circulated to 20,000 dealers by Masonite Corporation, devotes its current issue to what it aptly calls "the biggest sales promotion program in the history of construction." An editorial offers five suggestions on ways for dealers to participate in a program which, it says, may more than double the present $8 to $10 billion annual home improvement business.

The attractive eight-page issue contains a"jiffy order card" on which a dealer may order OHI sales aids including a home remodeling poster, advertising mats, free plans for making an OHI information and service center out of Masonite "Peg-Board" panels, and the Saturday Evening PostNRLDA merchandising calendar and kit.

Merlo NoGql Deputy Sncrrk for Hoo-Hoo

Bob Gallagher of New Mexico Timber Company, Albuquerque, and this year's Supreme Gurdon of Hoo-Hoo, has appointed Harry Merlo as Deputy Snark for Northern California. Merlo, of Rounds Lumber Company and a past president of Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 65, is currently also an officer of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9. He assumed his deputy duties in December.

It had been printed in the December 1 issue of The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that Bill McCubbin of Raymer & McCubbin, San Francisco, had been appointed to this post. However, McCubbin is currently devoting his extra time to Hoo-Hoo in working with Herb Schaur, Jr., general chairman of San Francisco's 1956 HooHoo national convention.

Mendocino County Growing

Ukiah, Calif.-Population in Mendocino county has gained 28/o since the 1950 census, with the new county total 53,000, and indicating that a fair proportion of the 27.2% state population increase is finding its rvay to Northern California. Building permits for 1955 in Ukiah, the county seat, more than doubled the 1954 figure-$3,787,827 compared to $1,799,840 the previous year.

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Frank Curran, 85, a Southerr-r California retail lunrlterman for more than 50 years and rvidely resirected an-rong his fellorv dealers and busir-ress associates, died early .far-ruary 19 at his l-rome in Santa Ana. 'n'here he had lived since 1935 as owner and president of the Frank Curran Lumber Company there. He had actively managed the Santa Ana yard until quite recently, rvhen his son Frank Curran, Jr., assurnecl control.

Frank Curran moved to Los Angeles from his native Illinois in the last century and, rvith his late brother Charlie, opened the Frank Curran Lumber Company in Pomona in 1892. Later l-re became affiliated 'ivith the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. and rose to general manager of its numerous Southern California yards in his 30 years rvith the firm. After establishing the Frank Curran Lurnber Co., again 20 years ago, the Curran 1'ards gren' to four in Orange county, rvith the headquarters in Santa Ana. The other yards are at Capistrano Beach, Huntington Beach and Orange, Calif.

The Curran family had lived in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, and N{r. Curran rvas active in the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, Hoo-Hoo, the L. A. Chamber of Commerce, the Nlerchants and Nfanufacturers Assn. and many civic, fraternal and church organizations.

Besides his son, u'ho norv heads the retail yards, Mr. Curran also leaves three daughters-Frances, Katherine and Esther, six grandchildren and tu'o great-grandchildren. The rosary rn'as recited January 20 and Requiem Nfass was celebrated for Mr. Curran at St. Joseph's in Santa Ana January 21. Burial u,as in the family plot at Holy Sepulchre cemetery.

Chcrrles J. Willioms

Moore Dry Kiln Co. of Canada, Vancouver, B.C.; Moore Pipe ville, Fla., and Vancouver Iron couver, Wash.

After establishing the first N oore plant, NIr. \\rilliams and his associates n'ere instrumental in ltuilding the se cond plant at North Portland in 1919 to serve the n'est coast lumber industry and, later, the tvn'o additional plants at Vanc<.rul'er ancl Brampton, to serve the lun.rber and n'ooclu'orking industry throughout Canada.

He had devoted practically his entire business life to the development of better and more economical methods of kiln drying lumber, veneer and other forest products. A number of patents on dry kiln developments and improvements had been granted him.

Mr. \\rilliams was one of the leading figures in the lrresbyterian church and a trustee of Davidson College. FIe u'as also a bank director and a civic and educational leader. In order to insure his philanthropic activities in future \-ears, he created the Charles J. \\lilliams Foundation in 1952. The beneficiaries are a number of reiigious, educatior.ral and charitable organizations in .rvhich he was interested.

Surviving are his n'ife, .l,{rs. Edna Sproull \Villiams ; a brother, Pat N{. \\/illiams, Sr., North Wilkesboro, N. C.; four sisters and a number c.rf nieces and nephen's, including Pat N{. Williams Jr. and Charles J. Williams III of Jacksonville.

Jomes Dqvis

Jirn Davis, president of l)avis Harclrvood Company in San Francisco, died sudclenly of a heart attack early January 17. He 'il'as only 44 years old and rvas rvidely knou,u and respected throughout the hardu'ood ar,cl plyn.ood industry of the \\'est Coast. lle 'n'as a native of C:rlifornia, born in Oakland.

Charles J.Williams, lvidely knorvn and respected figure in tl-re lumber industry, passed away January 2 at his home in Jacksonville, Fla., after an extended illness. This year marked the 50th anniversary of his association with the industry. At the time of his death, Mr. Williams r,vas chairman of the boards of directors of Moore Dry Kiln Co., Jacksonville, and Moore Dry Kiln Co. of Oregorr, North Portland, Ore. He was also president of Ltd., Brampton, Ont., and & Sprinkler Co., Jackson& Steel Foundry Co., Van-

The Davis Hardu'ood Company u'as originally established by Jim Davis' father, \Villiam Davis, in 1913 at 350 Bay Street in San Francisco, and later moved to its present location at 757 Beach Street. J,im Davis literally cut his teeth on hardwoods in his father's. business. At the age of 16 he rvas rvorking part-time at Davis Hardn'ood Company rvhile attending San F'rancisco schools. Later, after graduation, Jim took over the San Francisco to Reno territory for Davis Hardu'ood, rvhile his brother William, nolr, deceased, covered other parts of Northern California.

After the senior Davis' death, Jim Davis came ltack to the office and assisted his mother, Mrs. Lulu Davis, in the operation of the business. A little over a year ago, N[rs. Lulu Davis also died and Jim succeeded to the presidency of the firm.

In the past, Jim l)avis hacl rnade frecluent trips to Guatemala and the Far East and r,vas considered :rn authority on the milling of hardwoods.

Mr. Davis leaves his rvife, Aida; a son, Carlos, ancl a daughter, Louisa. He u'as a member of'Park Lodge No. 449, F. & A. M.; San Francisco Bodies Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Islam Temple of the Shrine, National Hard'rvood Lumber Association, West Coast Hardwood Association, Philippine Mahogany Association, Inc., and the Pacific Coast \\rholesale Hardwood Distributors Assn.

Funeral services were held January 20 in San Francisco. Officers of Park Lodge No. 449, F. & A. N{., ofifrciated.

Known affectionately to his friends as "Hickory," Mr. Mrs. Lueizo Mqy Johnson Williams was born on a plantation at Taylors Bridge, N.C. Mrs. Lueiza May Johnson, 60, mother of lVarren E. He became a partner of Lafayette "Dry Kiln" Moore in Johnson, manager of Big Town Lumber, Inc., and herself 1906, later forming the Moore Dry Kiln Co. at Jacksonville. active in the lumber ltusiness until recently, died December

15. Until the past few years, Mrs. Johnson was a partnermanager in the Narboone Lumber Co. in Lomita, Calif., rvhere she was active from.1.946 through 1950 and was a great {riend to all who knew her. She rvas born in Barnes, Kansas, January 23, 1895. She leaves her husband, E. B. Johnson; the son, Warren Johnson of the Big Tou'n Luml;er firm in Studio City, Calif., and trn'o grandsons.

Mrs. Elsie Mqdrin

Mrs. Elsie Buterbaugh Madrin, 63, president of the Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, died January 1 while on a holiday visit witl.r her brother in Helena, Montana. She was born in Alameda, Calif., and had made her l.rome in Beverly Hills 20 years. She leaves the brother, Marc W. Buterbaugh, of Helena. Funeral services and interment were in Fclrcst Lawn cemetery. Glendale. Calif.

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George Cott, 67, credit agent for the San Pedro Lumber Co., died December 2I. He had lived in Southern California 57 years and made his home in Santa Ana. He leaves his n'ife. Gertrude. and a sister.

Roy W. Webster, 61, building contractor, died December 16 at his North Hollyrnood home.. William Kyger,43, salesman for the Malco Distributing Co. of the O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, Ariz., was killed in an automobile accident there December 23. ... William A. Clark, 59, retired building contractor, died January 15 at Long Beach Veterans hospital. lle .ivas a native of Los Angeles and made his home in North Hollyw-ood.

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Sun lnstolls Privote Mobile System for Communicotions In Horbor Lumber Hondling

"Calling K. C. 6853 Sun unit one," Don Dayen, head man at Berth 135 for the Sun Lumber Co., Wilmington, California, was saying over the Private Mobile System.

This progressive Southern California lumber firm recently installed the two-way leased private radio equipment on carriers handling the millions of feet of lumber arriving 'n eekly at the 30-acre concentration yard, u'hich has a capacity of over 40 million board fcet.

The lumber-handling dock of Sun Lumber Company serves many of the southlancl firms who ship lumber from the northrvest timberlands via cargo, and this docking and storage facility can accommodate four vessels unloading simultaneously, rvith 16 carriers and three lift trucks.

It requires constant supervision and the nerv trvo-lvay radio telephone saves time and labor. It enables Dayen to keep in direct touch 'n'ith the huge operation right from his office.

"This Private Mobile System is perfect for locating various loads u'hen the materials move out of our yard. We can now handle trvice the number of trucks at one time that lve rvere previously able to take care of under the old system of u,alk-and-hunt," said Dayen.

Jim Hutcherson, operator of carrier nurnber one, is in direct communication rvith the office constantly. The company plans to install the Bell System gimmick on 10 carriers.

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A combination selling and merchandising display which is designed to I show and sell each Forest ' Hardboard product the 1 dealer has in stock is now i available from the For: est Fiber Products Co., I Forest Grove, Oregon, :! through its distributors r throughout the country. Seven difierent products are featured in one size 2' x 3', which the manufacturer says is the most popular for the "do-ityourself" and walk-in trade. The display also sells larger panels. The rack is wrought iron and, completely filled, it measures 11" x 3'. A five-color sign made of Forest Hardboard attracts the eye. The rack, sign and sam-

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Complete information on the merchandising rack may be obtained by writing to Foresf Fiber Products Co., Box 68-1, Forest Grove, Oregon.

Weslern Pine Supply Compony Adds Rippolire Plqstic Struclurql Pqnels

Western Pine Supply Company announces the addition of Rippolite Plastic Structural Panels to its many products norv stocked to service retail lumber dealers in Northern California. The manufacturer of Rippolite produces the conventional corrugated and flat panels, and also produces two shiplap patterns, and a board-and-bat offset design. Only Rippolite has five patterns to choose from. All patterns of Rippolite are available in translucent or opaque panels in nine decorator colors. Adequate warehouse stocks will be maintained by Western Pine, and prompt direct factory shipment on quantity orders is available.

All inquiries regarding NEW PRODUCTS, New Literatrue or booklets and other items mentioned in this section should be addressed to THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, Room 508, 108 West 6th St., Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly forwarded by us to the manufacturer or distributor, who will then answer your inquiries direct.

New M&M Plonking Treolment

Toasted V grooves are the latest in simulating planking in plywood panels. M and M Wood Working Company rolls in the grooves under heat and pressure, leaving a clean, smooth dark division at random widths. Formerly planking was simulated by a sawn groove. The new method adds a distinct richness and quality to redwood and fir plywood panels and a finished look which cannot be obtained any other way, the Malarkey concern says. Samples of the new panels were pre-tested for public opinion in the Malarkey Gallery of Modern Woods (a public exhibit) and were by far the most popular of 13 plywood surfaces shown, it was recorded. Grooves are on 16-inch centers so that if panels are to be nailed up they may be fastened through the grooves and thus be invisible.

Wedge Tighrens Timber Joints

Nothing fits so quickly, so tightly, as a wedge ! So, in order to obtain tighter-fitting joints in wood roof trusses, more qui.ckly, the wedge principle has been incorporated in the Teco "wedgefit" split-ring timber connectors, developed by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, in Washington, D.C. Wide-spread use of the connector in light and heavy construction throughout the nation has established distinct advantages of the double-beveled, wedge-shaped edges of the present Teco ring over the single-beveled edges of its predecessor. Fitting precisely in conforming grooves, cut with the precision-built Teco grooving tool in adjacent faces of joint members, the improved ring slips into position easily and quickly, without crushing the wood fibers at the groove's edge. This permits faster assembly of timber trusses, resulting in time and labor savings. Because of their wedge shape, there is less than 1/3?-inch clearance between the ring and the groove, producing tighter joints that minimize truss deflection.

NewOlympic Stqin Colors

Two new colors have been added to the pre-stained cedar shake and stain lines of Olympic Stained Products Company, Seattle. The new colors, Goldenrod and Flamingo, were developed as the result of a survey of architects and decorators, according to the announcement by Olympic Salesmanager Burr Odell. Formal public introduction of the new western tones were made at the company's annual national sales meeting in Seattle last month.

A slMPtE TURN oF THE wHEEt insronily rurns this new singre.unir murri. prrrpose home workshop power lool from o sow into o iointer I o, o sqnder. No occessories qre nocessory for the chongeover from sow to iointer ro ssnder. wclrer E.Schutz, soles mcnoger, Power root Division of yotes-Americon. is the demonstrotor.

Yqtes-Americqn Introduces New Mulri-Furpose Power Tool

The newest product offering the do-it-yourself fan a com_ bination of power tools all in one unit r,vas recently unveiled by the Yates-American Machine Company. The new machine, which has been advertised extensively to the home craftsmen trade, entered full production in August 1955, and is now available for distribution to retail lumber dealers throughout the United States.

New Flexcell Disploy Produced

A nelr' display, just produced by The Celotex Corporation, promotes the use of Flexcell Bituminous Impregnatecl Cane Fiber Board as Perimeter Insulatiorr. A sample of the product is an important part of the display.

New Stqnley Hordwore Cqfqlog

The first Stanley catalog aimed at the consumer market for household l-rardr,vare is a 32-page ltrochure just off the presses for distribution by retail dealers. The 6% by 9-inch catalog is a buying guide to the hundreds of everyday items needed by householders and farm o.rr-ners in 'building, remodeling or just plain fixing. Approximate retail prices are included, to help the reader budget his purchases. The dealer's name rvill be imprinted free on the fror.rt cover. Stanley Hardlvare suggests that catalogs be sent out by dealers to their mailing lists or \\rrapped rvith purchases, and has priced the brochures as lorv as a penny apiece, depending on quantity;$3 per 100 copies;94.50 for 250;96 for 500; and 910 for 1,000.

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The Lost Leader .

We lost the great ground-level champion of forestry in these United States when \Villiam Buckhout Greeley departed this life at the end of November. This is to take note of the record.

A strictly condensed outline of Colonel Greeley's stages of progress in forestry, typed single space' jams an 8x10" page. Here are samPle sPots:

He l'as born at Oslvego, N. Y., September 6, 1879' His ancestry reached along a line of Congregational preachers to 1630 in America and u,as of Scotch descent. As a boy his family brought him around the Horn to San lirancisco on a sailing ship. lle grerv up on a Santa Clara Valley ranch. In 1901 young Greeley carried a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California to Ne'"v Haven' Two years later he left Yale rvith a N{aster's in Forestry'

Lean, tall and tough, the young forester served in the South, New England and California through 1908. Then he 'ivas appointed district forester at Missoula, remaining for a year after the big fires of 1910 u'hich killed 85 men and trees on 3,000,000 acres.

He rn,as assistant chief forester, in charge of forest management of Washington, D. C.,1912-1917' In World \\rar I he became Colonel Greeley, commanding 20,000 troops in the Forestry section, Service of Supply, in France. IIis u'ar service rvon him the U. S. Distinguished Service Medal, a French Legion of Honor arvard, and England's Distinguished Service Order.

The Lonesome Road.

From 1920 to 1928 Colonel Greeley rvas Forest Service chief. He and Oregon's Senator Charles L. NIcNary rvere partners in achievement during that period, rvhich sarv the enactment of a series of Acts of Congress that macle American forest management, both public and private' move onward.

Victory over fire was on the march by 1928- Farm forestry was up and coming. All phases of forest and forest products research r,vere in the line of Americar-r scientific progress.

Hones With R.O.Ws Sell Ioster-Srot Sold longer

Buyers are selecting homes with great care today. They are choosing thore homes which combine beauty with comfort and efrciency features-plus ualues that set them apart. That's why some homes are sold before completion, and others carry a "For Sale" card for many months before moving. Volume production has kept the price down to the cost of ordinary wood windows. R.O.Ws have outsold all competitors for

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Then the great challenge ahead, as Greeley sarv it, loomed on the lonesome road of private forestry. George S. Long' Mark Reed, Everett Griggs, John Tennant and other West Coast timber leaders invited Greeley to quit his post of power and authority and come ont to lead the fight forward for industrial forestry. It would be a fight. Nothing less, and nothing more, was Promised.

The colonel came west. He marched under his old slogan, coined in 1919-"Timber is a crop." Then he began to speak up, loud and strong, on industrial tree farming-rvhich he rvas rvriting about in national magazines as early as 1931, urging a national program.

War and Peace

Through \A/orld WarII Colonel Greeley comrnonly 'rvorked a 90-hour rveek on a vast variety of lumber procurement programs and technical projects in n'ood. All the lr,hile he rvas leading the Keep Washington Green cam-

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paign, which was his brain-child, long a-borning. In 1940 it rvas set going under the direction of Stewart H. Holbrook, with a name that had first been used in the 1925 form of Keep Vermont Green and Keep Minnesota Green.

Next year a project of applying intensive forestry practices to a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company property in Grays Harbor County was given as a name the colonel's old attention-getting term, "tree farm." So with "Clemons Tree Farm," a second national industrial forestry campaign hit the road.

\\rith all his work for lumber in Worlcl \\rar II, Greeley four-rd time to take a leading part in the organization of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., to extend the "Keep Green" and "Tree Farm" patterns of private forest conservation promotion to forests North, East an<l South.

The author of many articles, William B. Greeley's name is also on the covers of a Doubleday book, "Forests and Men" (1951), and "Forest Policy," a McGrarv-Hill textbook of 1954.

Norv there is a Greeley Tree Farm, on Gamble Bay, of Puget Sound. More and more of his time u'as spent there in recent years, rvriting, thinning his young stands of trees, gardening and giving time to farm forestry lvork in Kitsap County. He remained a vice-president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association to the last. Industrial forestrv has lost its pioneer leader.

An average of 2 billion bd. ft. of timber annually in Washington and Oregon in spite trol over several epidemics in recent years.

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Eurekq Boy Wins Poster Contest

The first annual grand anard for fire prevention posters rvas made to Dick Hanley of Eureka lJnion Fligh School by the \Vestern Keep Green Committee meeting at l)ortland Decemller 7. Entered in the contest u'ere 50 Posters representing regional rvinners.

of the RRCC, acceptecl the trophy (right, above).

A gold loving cup mounted on a rvood base and flanked by gold Victory statuettes rvas ar,varded to the RRCC to retain as the sp()nsor of this vear's u'inner. This r'vill be a perpetual trophy, arvarded each year to the spollsor of the poster rvinner. Ben S. Allen, secretarv

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Goost Worehouse Stocks Ample to Repqir 75,OOO Flooded Homes

Ample warehouse stocks of building materials on the west coast are helping to speed recovery from the recent severe flood damage, according to the National Building Material Distributors Association.

S. M. Van Kirk, genera,l manager of the association, reported sufficient board-type materials were on hand i,n distributors' warehouses in the flood areas to make substantial repairs to 75',000 homes. He estimated that supplies of roofing and other materials on the west coast are sufficient for immediate repair of between 7,500 and 10,000 homes.

"The ready availability of supplies in distributors' warehouses is of primary irnportance in such disasters as this," Van Kirk said. "Weeks or even months might be lost if rebuilding had to wait on the ordering and shipping of materials from manufacturers' plants, most of which ate far from the stricken areas. Retailers' stocks are inadequate to

fiIl such a sudden, emergency demand as this'"

Estimated distributors' supplies on the Coast are:

Insulation. Board, .16,000,000 square feet

AsphoJt Roofing 280,000 squares

Hardboard, ...5,000,000squarefeet

Fi,r Plyzaood

Asbestos Board

Nails

Dimension Lumber

Doors

Stucco Netting

5,000,000 square feet

250,000 square feet

110,000 kegs

725 carloads

16,000

14,000 rolls

"This is the second time in recent months that distributors have played a key role in reconstruction after disasters. Warehouse stocks of building materials were rushed to Nerv England Coast cities last fall after hurricanes Carol and Edna damaged i00,00O homes and forced the evacuation of 60,000 persons," Van Kirk said.

Northwest Poy Boosts Widen

Portland, Ore.-Pacific Northn'est timber industry wage increases in recent r,l'eeks have spread to nearly one-third of the employes in Oregon and Washington, reported the I-umbermen's Industrial Relations Committee. Wage hikes have been made lor 42,N0 out of 134,000 employes in lumber, logging and plywood, ranging from 5 cents to 15 cents, an increase of 4r/a/o.

Walter Durham, Jr., manager of the committee, estimated the increases represent a boost of more than $7 million a year under agreements 'ivith both the Lumber & Sawmill Workers Union and the International \Yoodworkers of America, AF L-CIO.

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The hish style and beautY of these Bruce F"loors appeal to both builders and do-it-yourself customers.

Bruce Block, Ranch Plank and Fireside Plank, like Bruce Prefinished Strip. give homes extra charm at no ext# iost because the exPense of on-the-job sanding and finishing is

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Hal A. Brou'n, chairman of the Membership committee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, has enrolled the NfcKay Lumber Co., Van Nuys, as an active member. S. Morhar owns the yard at 14201 Aetna St.

New Lien Lqw Book

The Building Material Dealers' Credit Association, Los Angeles, has published a new S0-page book, "Mechanics' LienLaw and Other Statistics Affecting the Building Industry in California." Price is $1 per copy.

Glendqle Building Record

Building permits of $15,85i,701 for Glendale, Calif., in 1955 set an all-time record, eclipsing by $944,679 the previous $15,907,022 established in 1954.

The annual wood growth on 15 acres of West Coast forest is enough to build an average-size American home'

Bruce Block Solid oak blocks form a smart, modern geometric design.

Bruce Flreclde Plqnk Featurins dramatic new "Midnight Finish" ard alternate-width strips.

Bruce Ronch Plank Walnut pegs and alternate widths for informal random Plank effect'

Inspection Burequ Nqme €honged

The West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau is the new name of the half-century old organization responsible for inspecting and grading of lumber produced in western Oregon, Washington and northern California. The new name became effective January 1, according to H. V. Simpson, manag'er, and replaces the more cumbersome West Coast Bureau of Lumber Grades and Inspection. Headquarters is at Portland, with branch offices at Seattle, Eugene, Medford, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and New York. Resident supervisors are maintained the year around at Eureka, San Francisco, Chicago and Dallas. Active direction of the Bureau is in the hands of General Superintendent Howard Brown.

December Housing Stqrts-75roOo

The preliminary estimate of 75,000 new nonfarm dwelling units started in December is 15,600 units less than December last year. An upward revision in the September figures of 1,900 units brought the total preliminary estimated starts for 1955 to 1,3D9@. This is 109,500 ahead of 1954, and only 66,100 lower than the record-breaking year of 1950.

CRA Dofcr on Finishes

The California Redr,r'ood Association's revised data sheet, "Maintenance of Exterior Finishes" (485-1), may be obtained by writing to the association, 576 Sacramento Street, San Francisco 11, California.

Tucker New President of F. C.RussellCo.i Fred fhomson to Boqrd of Directors

Frank C. Russell, founder of The F. C. Russell Company, announces the election of William Tucker as president by the board of directors. In this capacity, Tucker rvill act as chief executive officer of the company. NIr. Russeli stated that he will continue on in the capacity of chairman of the board, relinquishing his duties as president to devote more time to the overall policies and expansion of the rapidly growing company, which rvas originally formed tn 1937 and has grown to one of the foremost manufacturers of metal windows and doors in the residential field.

Tucker was brought into the company by Russell as vicepresident and director of manufacturing a little over a year ago, in anticipation of today's move. He was later advanced to executive vice-president and assistant to Mr. Russell.

Fred Thomson, prominent Southern California lumberman and building executive, was elected to the board of directors of F. C. Russell Company at the same meeting. Thomson is president of the Rusco Prime Windou' Company, Tustin, California, distributors of Russell products in the west. He is also president of the Inland Lurnber Company, wholesale distributors with concentration yards in several Southern California cities.

"Since the opening of the F. C. Russell Company branch manufacturing plant in Anaheim, California, last November, Rusco Prime Window sales have shown a steady increase throughout the southland," said Jim Connolly, vice-president and general manager of the distributing firm.

Connolly and Thomson returned from the east and middle-

AAonuloclurcd rolcly by

- HANSON COMPANY

DIRECT MILL DISTRIBUTORS FOR,EST PRODUCTS

west January 27, where they attended meeting of the parent firm in Cleveland Association of Home Builders convention ary 22 through 26.

the annual sales and the National in Chicago, Janu-

Ooklond Hoo-Hoo Now Plonning Golq Annuol Biilhdoy Porry

Joe Pepetone, president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39, and Ralph Hill, chairman of this year's annual birthday party, report that plans are well under way for what is expected to be the biggest and "mostest" birthday party dinner dance in Club 39's history.

Hill advises that he has reserved the Horizon room in the Claremont hotel in Berkeley for the entire evening of February 21 (remember, the next day is a holiday) to insure complete privacy for Club 39 members, their wives and guests.

The big ladies' night get-together, rvhich includes cijcktails, dinner dancing and a world of fun, is held each year in honor of the Oakland Hoo-Hoo past presidents and has proven to be one of the highlights of the club's year-long activities.

Pqbco Acquires Fibreboord I OOo/o

Stockholders of Pabco Products, Inc., San Francisco. voted for a plan by which Pabco will acquire complete ownership of Fibreboard Products, Inc., through the purchbse of Fibreboard stock ndw owned by Crown Zellerbach Cbiporation. Fibreboard will purchase Crown's entire holdings of Fibreboard stock for a price of $37,800,000.

We regret thct we cre uncble to think oI <rn Original scrles pitch this time

Pqlm Springs Hils Building Record

l'a1r'n Sprir-rgs, Calif .Itrrilrling hit ;rrr all-tirnc high here in 1955 n'itir total permit valuatior-r at $9,803,852, compared to the previous $6 millionplus figrrre set in 1946. 'l'he 1955 figure nearly donl tion u'as startecl orr 506 dr,r.e1lings, plus 22 new business buildings. The Southcrn California resort also hacl its biggest boom in su'imming pools in 1955. rvith 173 lrermits issued for a value of $695,000 during the year. The number of pools here totaled 999 as of January 7.

'Old-rimers' Meet

Ricci & Kruse Opens Yclrd No.2fior Exponsion Need

A case of ir-rcrearsingly sharp gron'ing pains has recently necessitated a piant expansion b1' I{icci & Kruse Lnnrber Company, located at 912 Shotr,vell Street in San Francisco. The long-estzrblished Shotu,eli Street yard has gracluitlly become completely hen'rmed in lty resi'dential building, so J. Iticci, owner of the pioneer lumber concern, ciecided to pnrchase a tract of nerv industrial llroperty, at Hau-es Street and Armstrong Aventte in San Francisco, for the expansion and, along r,vith the establishment of tl.re Ricci ct Kruse Lumber Company Yard No. 2, it tvas also deciderl to move the firm's main office to that pciint.

The establishment of Yard No. 2 n'il1 have cor.rsi<lerable effect on the Ricci & Kruse operation, accirrcling to J. llicci. Formerly held back by the lack of adequate storagc space, the big nerv yard u'i1l nou, enable the stocking oI complete lines of KD ponderosa ancl sugar pine lumber, clear firs, hemlock, cedar, VG firs in all thicknesses, etc., clomestic plyu,oocls, and an ever-increasing inventory of drv redrvood.

When

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-hurelia. L'alii.Hammond Lumber Co. held its eigl-rth anhual QuarterCentury Club meeting last month at the Eureka Inn. Seven nerv members rvere given personalized gold wrist watches at the dinner lor 25 years' continuous service. Membership is now 128 for the Hammond Redwood Division.

New Ukich Tie Mill

Ukiah, Calif.-The first tie mill in this area in recent years began operations December 15. Hugh \\'atkins, San Francisco businessman, has leased Universal Stud Lumber ('ompany's plant and renamed it the Ukiah Tie and Lbr. Co.

Vqcqville Boom

Vacaville, Calif.-An unprecedented building boom drrring 1955 saw issuance of permits totaling $4,224,566. The figure rvas almost $2 million more than the previous 1952 record.

In addition to tl're sales volume from yard stock, Ricci & Kruse Lumber Company also operates a grou'ing direct mill business, handling all species of West Ct-,ast forest products. Sales from both operations are made to ll'holesalers, retail yards, millwork manufacturers an<l otl.rcr irldustrials throughout the Greater Bay area.

The company's present sales policy lvas set in 19'16, thc year that J. Ricci and his father, A. Ricci, purchased the old retail lumber business from the Kruse interests. At that time the yard rvas u'ell among one of the oldest in Northern California, having been established in tl-re year 1875 by J. H. Kruse at the Shotwell Street address. The J. 1-I. Kruse Lumber Company grer.v from its modest beginnirtg and has been responsible for supplying much of the material that went into the building and, after the quake, the rebuilding of the City by the Golden Gate.

After taking over the business in 194(t, J. Ricci, u'ho had formerly been many years rvith the Allen & Dettn.r:rn I-umber Company in San Francisco, continued to expand the pioneer firm as a rvholesale distributor and lumbervard spc-

IHE J. H. KRUSE IUIIBER COMPANY before ihe lurn of lhe century. Founded in 1875 by Mr. Krusa, rhe Ritcis bought out lhe Kruse inleresls in 1946 ond still mointoin Yqrd No. I at lhis some locoli,on,912 Shotwell Strcet.

* 2,OOO,OOO FEET INVENTORY GUARANTEES PRON'IPT SERVICE QUATITY AND SAVINGS

STotc 5-8873

STonlcy 7-1129

DISTRIBUTION YARD: 13301 BURBANK B[VD., VAN NUYS, CAttF. ALSO:

* DIRECT TN]IL SHIPIIIENIS BY CARTOAD OR TRUCK TRAITER BOB NEIMAN BoB REED

cializing in KD lumber of all kinds. The lf-acre Shotwell Street yard will continue to be utilized for storage, and the ne\ / 3-acre Yard No. 2, with over 35,000 sq. ft. of undercover storage, testifies to the growth of the firm under Ricci's capable management.

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THE GRAND-DADDY OF do-it-your:elf yords; the late J. H. Kruse stsnds in cisle

The material expansion of Ricci & Kruse Lumber Company has also been paralleled by a sales and office force expansion. Now assisting Ricci in the buying an'd selling of lumber is Harold Roberts, who came to the firm a few yeais back from Winton Lumber Sales Company. Ross ,Lee, formerly a long-time Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Company salesman, is now in charge of expediting, and also

Harbor Lunber 0onrpanfo Ine .

Wholnnln

lir-Pinn-Htedwood

Jlanulactorrrt of SpeeifieelOut Stoek

Powelf ql Embqrcqdero o Sqn Frqncisco ll, Cqliforniq o Telephone YUkon 2-6919 o TWX SF 9O8

hanclles sales for lticci & Iirrrsc. Olerseeir-rg tlie ol1rce milnagcnrent lLncl rlctrril is Vinccnt Fergusor-r, rLssociaterl [or nralr\' \-ears n'itlr thr Iiicci & hrrrse c()nrl):t1l,v. P'ill 'l-lrllrot anil ('hzLrlie l-:rrsor-r. 1roth u'ith nriln-\'_\'eirrs oi lttrnlrcr h:trr rllirrg:urrl r-rtrt1 olrcr:tti,,n exl,t'ritncr t() thcir crcrlit. iirc itr chlrrge of t1're olrenrtiorr r,i thc tu-o lticci & [rntsc 1'rrrrls.

Irr line u'ith his e-rlransion l)r.)gram. J. Iiicci n()te(1. "( )ur cstalrlishnre rrt of \-ard \o. 2 has r:reatlv inrproverl ()11r ()l)eraling:rrc:r anrl r:tllcicnc_r'in enalrlirrg 1ts 1() c:[rr-\' :r lrtruer;rnrl r.norc rlive rsillerl stocli to lrcttcr scrvie c ()11r cust()llcrs. Il ad<litiorr. itttttrc p1:rns crrll for incre:rse<l trn<lcr-c,rvtr st()rilgc arerL rrnrl, cr-entuallr', thc irrstalllrtiorr of <1rr- kiln f:rcilitic's."

ENTRANCE TO NEW RICCI

Ferguson ond Ross lee (top & KRUSE lefr) ond Vince stock.

No. 2 yord Hol Roberis qt Hqwes Street qnd Armstrong Ave ond J. Ricci (top right). New storoge in 5on Frqncisco (top center). sheds (bofiom lefr), 35,000 sq

Kingpins of rhe RBK operqtion qre ft. storoge oreo (cenler) ond yord

tO$-CAL LUllBER CO.

WHOIESAIE DISTRIBUTORS

SUGAR & POTDEROSA PINE

Gqliforniq Flood Toll Tqllied

(Continued from Page at Ben Bow which resulted from been cleared.

2\ the latest rains has slide now

All traffic is subject to one-way convoys at the spots the state is repairing. If truckers can catch a cqnvoy at the right time, they can make pretty fair time down to the Bay area. On January 20 they were figuring about l0 hours for the trip.

The California Highway Patrol believes No. 101 will be kept open (barring any further downpours like the last two) but fresh rains and existing ground conditions will keep equipment working for some rveeks yet. It will be some time before the state can return Highway 101 to a semblance of normal. A few truckers are still hauling by way of Grants Pass, Ore., and down 99W at this writing. Tarpaulins over lumber loads are a must on 101 because of the mud on the road. Otherwise, lumber would become coated with mud on the trip down.

Railroad Repair Retarded

The Northwestern Pacific R.R. revised its track-reopening estimate from February 1 to 6, following the heavy mid-January rains. However, they stated January 20 that a work train would pass over the repaired Scotia Bluff trestle on Sunday, January 22, and they were hopeful of openihg the line sometime during the first week of February . barring further rain. Morrison-Knudsen Co. had to pull its work crews off a job at Scotia two days (January 15-15) because of more high waters.

Thumbnail sketch: At Scotia Bluff (one of the worst

GIUALITY

HARDWOOD PTYWOOD

. Slngle Ply

DOUGTAS FIR & WHITE PINE P1YWOOD

Hardbosrd

Cefofex - Forest

BONNINGTON LUMBER

spots), NWP had two spots, one 376 feet and the other 335 feet lqng, where fill and ballast was washed completely away from the tracks .40 feet deep in places. Other trouble spots: Mad River Slough Bridge, north of Eureka. Bridge badly damaged and NWP repairing and replacing damaged sections. Island Mountain region, Spyrock and Kekawaka in Eel River Canyon, were all trouble spots. Numerous slides and washouts. Nashmead had a number of "sinks," where additional fill and ballast is required.

Work in many places is hampered by lack of roads into the area. Therefore, repairs have to be made entirely by work-train crews and, of course. the track has to be in some semblance of shape before they can get a work train over it.

In all, officials estimate Southern Pacific and Northwestern Pacific R.R. damage (including loss of operating revenue) at over $5,000,000. That's $5 MILLION, son ! NWP alone (not including loss of operating revenue) estimates it's lost over $2 million as of February 1 in repairing damage.

Estimated Loss to Industries Only

(These figures are from the U. S. Department of Commerce in San Francisco and are tentative figures only as of January 18, 1956. The figures are grorving each day as new claims are uncovered:)

Alameda ...$1,280,000

Butte . ... .$ 25.000

Humboldt ..$1,710,m0 (all lumber industry loss)

MARTIN PLYWOOD COTNPAilY

Wlrolnnl" bi*ributor

Ash Philippine Mohogony Whire Pine Birch

Knofty Pine Plywoods

Douglos Fir Knotty Cedor Hordboqrd

-Combinqlion Screen Doors-

Office qnd Wqrehouse: 6614 Bondini Boulevord . Los Angeles 22, Cq,lilornla

PHONES: PArkwoy 8-3891 RAymond 3-3661

Mendocino .. ..$

San Joaquin ....$

Santa Cruz

And the Market?

Prices remain high and it is estimated that production in Northern California is ofr 25/o, mostly accounted for by small mills. Logging is impossible, so it's a matter of who has the cold decks, and how long will they last. A few good weeks of clear weather would permit logging, but we haven't had two nice days in a rorv in over a month . much less a week or so of good weather.

Additional Mill Damage

ARCATA REDWOOD COMPANY: Some broken water pipes at Orick mill; otherwise no damage to either mill or inventory.

LABECK LUMBER COMPANY, Miranda: heavily damaged by high water, reported five feet deep OVER mill building itself !

HUMBOLDT FIR CO., Hoopa: damaged by high water and floating logs and inventory.

TRINITY RIVER mill, Hoopa: damaged by high water and mill burner partially destroyed by floodwaters.

According to the papers, the biggest concentration of road equipment in Northern California history is now working around the clock and at a complete "disregard of cost" to restore Highway 101 to something like normal. Work is

Whole dole {u^ber,llerchant

1908 Conodq Boulevqrd

Glendqle 8, Colifornio

}TEDFORD CORPORATION MIXED & POOTED CARS, KD or GREEN DOUGTAS FlR, KD WHITE FIR, PINE, INCENSE CEDAR V.G. UPPERS. ENGETJVTANN SPRUCE-BIRD'5-EYE PINE.

PERsoNAt sm-GET rrErrns TIMBERS TO FIFTY.FOOT TENGTHS

Represenling Oceqn View lumber Co. El Dorodo Foresl Products Co.

"Ore, Thirty-Five Years Experience Morketing Western Foresl Producls"

OI.D GROWIH DOUGTAS FIR-GREEN-AD.KD Corgo - Rqil - Truck&Trqiler

NOBERT S. OSGOOI)

Old Growth Canadian WESTERN RED CEDAR

BoordsPanelingKiln Dried Bevel Siding Green

3315 llVest Stlr Slreet, at Vermont Ave. DU-2&t78 LOS ANGELES 5

TWX - Llt 650

Jim Forgie -- ' Bob Osgood -- John Osgood

progressing but hauling last month was still plenty rough (and unprofitable) for truckers.

Believe we're over the hump. That is, if we don't get any more prolonged rain. (It's pouring up north again today.)Max M. Cook, San Francisco, January 20, 1956.

FHA ro Aid Flood Vicrims

San Francisco-Relaxation of FHA credit restrictions to aid those who lost homes in the flood areas of California and Nevada was announced earlier last month by FHA

Commissioner Norman P. M4son, who said a special FHA representative, M. Joseph Cassidy, was flying from Washington, D.C., to headquarter at the FHA district office here.

The principal ,contribution will be to make available sound, long-range private financing for permanent homes to replace those lost.

Specific examples of credit aids available in disaster areas are

For medium-priced housing-Reduction of down-payment requirements for new homes to 5/o of the first $9000 of appraised value and 25/o on the amount in excess of $9000:

Reduction of down-payment requirements on existing ,homes to lO% on the first $9000 of appraised valuation and 257o on the amount in excess of $9000; extension of mortgage term to 30 years.

THE SIANTON IIMBERWOIVES hod onother of their recordshotlering nights Jonuory 9 ond rolled info Grsl plcce in Hunlinglon Pork leogue, gothering c torol pin count of 3'019, shooting gomes of 1033-990995-High series. Mqx Krouse piiched o dozzling 3-9ome totol of 640 nct plur 53 hondiccP for high 3-gome individuol series; hir firsl gome of 255 nct is obo the high single gomc 1277 gtossl. In the Leoguc rtonding, rhc E. J. Stonlon & Son Lumber Co. "Wolves" ore in firrl ploce by lrA gomcr.

StANION, SR., ,lAilt PASTORNAK, Jess BERISTAIN-Ihc Stonton 'Wolveg' i/lax KRAUSE, Jock THOI/IAS, 'By', HARMON' tloyd WEBB, Ferd HAAS, Rov

Representing on a wholesale, direct mill shipment basis some of the older and better Fir and Pine manufacturers in Oregon and Northern California GREEN OR DRY ROUGH OR SURFACED

By rail or truck

forest Products $ales Compnry

penroaah

Edward H. McGnnis, vice-president and general manager of Union Hardware and Metal Co., Los Angeles, and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Now San Marino residents, their honeymoon home was at 2nd and Aliso streets in 1906. The McGinnis family home was the first building constructed on the northwest corner of 6th and Main streets in L. A. in 1880. He began with the well-known hardware firm as an ofifice boy. His late brother John McGinnis was with Gladding, McBean Co. and his late brother Felix was a Southern Pacific vice-president.

Harold Baker, Harbor Lumber Company, returned to San Francisco headquarters after 10 days at northern California mill connections.

Kenneth Thompson, office manager for Southwest Lumber Mills, fnc., was named president of the Flagstaff, Ariz., Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Bob Kilgore and Ernie Bapon, Fairhurst Lumber Co., San Rafael, recently visited suppliers in the portland and Eugene, Ore., areas.

Lloyd King, formerly located at the home office of Eureka Redwood Lumber Company in Eureka, has been assigned to inventory control at the Downey, Calif., distribution yard of the redwood manufacturing and distributing concern; he will make his home in southern California.

Dean Jones, manager of the Downey yard of Eureka Redwood Lumber Company, returned from an extended survey of the northern California flood area and spent several days at the general offices in Eureka.

PEIIBERT}|Y

PACTFTC FOREST PRODUCTS, rNC.

Wbolesale Lunt'ber

Douglos Fir o Redwood o Ponderosq qnd Sugor Pine

C[I.

Stuorf Joins Mqrtin Box ComPqnY lo Heod Moulding, Millwork Division

William Stuart, Jr. (left), for the past 25 years identified with the Southern California lumber industry, has been appointed head of the moulding and special millwork division for The Martin Brothers Box Company, Compton, California, according to Orval Paul, general manager of the wholesale lumber department of the remanufacturing concern. Stuart first entered the lumber sales field following graduation from the University of Southern California in 1930. He spent 18 years with the Hammond and Orvens Parks lumber companies. Seven years ago he became specialty salesman for the Western Mill & Molding Co., Los Angeles, where he headed this department before resigning to take his present position.

5800 s0. BoYLE AVE., ttls AIIGEIES 58

Bill Stuart is well known throughout the industry in the u'est, a member of Hoo-Hoo Club 2 and active in civic and fraternal affairs in the southland. In his new job he will service his customers with their moulding needs and, in addition, will handle rvholesale sales of Douglas fir, redrvoocl and ponderosa pine, according to Orval Paul.

(Tell them that yow sazu it in The Calif ornia Lumber Merchant.)

Shoulder Trode Know Their Sruff

Jack Pomeroy and. Don Wilson of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern CaliforniE who manned the LMANC booth at the Oakland D-I-y show, report that the visitors showed special interest in an LMA pamphlet showing how to figure board measure and a display of grade-stamped lumber. "The various grades, and the uses for these grades, were of considerable interest to the home handymen," Wilson declared, "and many people asked me why it wouldn,t be feasible for lumberyards to put up a similar display in their showrooms." They also found the show visitors extremely interested in the various details of summer cabin construction.

Ooklqnd Do-lr-Yourself Show

(Continued from Page 13) plywoods for the den, playroom and closets, and new veneers to cover tables and cabinets.

In all, the show continued to point out the interest being generated by the do-it-yourself trade in tackling an everincreasing variety of home improvement and remodernization projects. It also appeared a certainty that the retailer providing the information and "know-how" for the popular do-ityourself home projects was bound to get a lion's share of that multi-billion-dollar annual market.

Producer Bentley's next do-it-yourself show will be staged at the Pan-Pacific auditorium in Los Angeles, July 19-29. The 4th annual Oakland show will be November 8-18.

and ll0lrlESTIC PtYW00tl

CnnFTENSON LUMBER CO.

FltEs

Mohogony Outlook for t 956

If the present consumption levels of mahogany lumber and veneer by the furniture industry continue or increase, 1956 u'ill be as good a year as 1955, or probably better. Although not the highest on record, the 1955 calendar period ranks with some of the top years. It will be better than t954.

Both mahogany lumber and mahogany veneer sl-ripments are expected to share in the gains recorded by the industry during the year just ended. Mahogany lumber shipments in 1955 will probably be approximately 5O/o ahead of 1954' while mahogany veneer shipments will probably register a 15/o gain over a year ago.

Although at the moment supply and demand are just about in balance, if the high level of consumption should advance still further, as might happen following the January furniture markets, there could be some shortages in certain grades and thicknesses.

Cognizant of this possibility, however, importing concerns are redoubling their efforts to increasq importation of mahogany logs. Like all things, the mahogany industry is subject to unforeseen hazards that could affect log supply.

Factors that point to a good mahogany year in 1956 include the bright outlook in furniture production, the return of beautiful wood cabinets in the television and radio fields, the new design trend in natural finishes, the quality paneling trend in home building and architecture, and the better materials movement in boat building, occasional furniture and novelties. The furniture industry already reports orders booked through March lvith operations at full capacity'

L. J. "Lou" Hollond P. P. "PEYT" lloloney

0201 San landro S[, OrHrnd 2l Spu Track lor In

- Phom L0clfieYen 8-3il1 Tnnslt Drying

pqrtoarrh

, The Dill Lumber Company employes, wives, husbands and guests held their annual holiday party at the home of Sylvester Ambrose, Bloomington, Calif.

Mrs. Ella Curto, former office manager of Dicknsons Lumber Company, has joined Walt Bailey at West Coast Forest Products Co. as office manager. She really ,.grew up" in the lumber business in Chico, headquarters of Diamond Match Co., and many lumber folks remember her as Ella Cooper, good right-hand of Ira Brink, manager of yards and stores, and his assistant, Del Travis, who is now president of Travco, Inc., San Jose. Mrs. Curto spent three war years in the USMC purchasing department and returned to the lumber business in the Sacramento valley. She married Mr. Curto and moved to San Francisco, where she worked for Dicknsons until the death of Dick Mussalem last summer. The Curtos now live on the Peninsula. near \A'CFPC's San Mateo offices.

P. L. Martthies of the P. L. Matthies Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently returned from his South American trip and found awaiting him in his mailbox a notice that he had won one of the prizes in the recent Zeesman ,,World Series" baseball contest. Norman Zeesman, president of the Zeesman Plywood Corp., had thought for a while he might have to make Latin delivery of the prize.

Ed La,Franchi, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Oakland, and E. W. Spaulding of Eureka, chairman of the pFp board, spent the week of January 16 visiting Bruce Brickell at Pacific Forest's Grants Pass buying office.

c@ B,rrlk[/bt$ry& Go.

WHOLESAIE DISTRIBUTORS

Doqrs - Plywood-- Mouldings - Hordboords

Mqnufqcturers ol Pre-hung Door Units

9015 G Street * Ooklond 3, Colifornio * LOckhoven 2'1700

NOTICE !

The RRCC has deemed it expedient to change the date for its annual meeting to February 25. 1956, to allow members and friends in the flood areas tin,e to straighten out their more pressing affairs.

Please note the change from the original date of January 28th to the February date. The meeting rvill still be at the Eureka Inn in Eureka and it is our hope that all of those interested in the RRCC will be able to attend.

SASH & DOORS

J. Harold Robinson, President, Ben S. Allen, Secretary Redwood Region Conservation Council

January 9,1955

Dicrmond Mcltch Co. Proiecf

JOHN

652-676 So. Myers St. LOS ANGELES 93, CALIF.

ANgelus 9-8191

Red Bluff, Calif.-A public hearing rvas set for Febru:lrv 6 by the city council to consider annexation of the 7}-acre Stage Coach Village subdivision planned at the north city limits to consist of a business and residential area. This is the second such subdivision planned for early completior.l here, the other being a 300-home residential area and shopping center at the south city limits.

The latter is sponsored by Var Strange on property adjacent to the 400-acre factory site rvhich the Diamond Match Company is now preparing for erection oI several buildings and 'ivhich was to be spurred along as soon as the ground dried out after the heavy December-Januarl' rains.

Penn n"h,

Carroll E. Hammond, sales manager of Geo. C. Hammond & Sons, Northridge, Calif., is up part of each day now and "getting along fine," his father repoits, after suffering a heart attack in December. For some .iveeks. however. the younger Hammond will have to be away from his regular duties at the retail ya.rd, which has just undergone a fine remodeling of the store for more modern merchandising operations, which will be featured in an early issue of The Merchant.

"Mr. Hardwood" himself, P. R. "Bob" Kahn, of Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, Mrs. Kahn and Bob's brother Victor, of Hawaii, are currently on the high seas enroute to North Africa. The Kahns'left January 24 and plan to travel through most of North Africa and rvill include Israel and parts of the Mediterranean in their jaunt, returning to The City about mid-April.

Horace Wolfe, president of Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Hollyrvood, was seen spending a few days (and dollars) in Reno, Nevada, last month. Horace took over part of tl-re Riverside hotel before returning to California.

Dorothy Jacobson, formerly with Roseburg Lumber and Northern Timber, is the new "girl Friday" for "Van" Brynke, head man of North Star Timber Corp.

A. R. Brooks, Jacobsen Lumber Co., E,ugene, Ore., was a recent visitor in Los Angeles, where he called on the new owners of Continental Lumber Sales, Inc., San Marino. Mark C. Storms, Monroe Lumber Co., also of Eugene, rvas another recent Continental caller on business.

TACHT]I.ERY FOR SAIE

Mill llqchinery in Excellent Condition-Priced Right

l-Pfqner, Woods Model 415M2 (21" Heods)

l-Plqner, Woods Model 4t4 (15" Heods)

l-12" Vonnicutt Moulder (12" Heods)

2-l5O-HP Reese Blowers

For Further Delqils ond lnspeclion-CAll

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:"ffbTffi: 1956 Home Improvement Contest

The J,anuary issue of Better llomes & Gardens launched one of the biggest and most important home improvement promotions in the nation. BH&G is providing an incentive of $25,000 in cash prizes. The issue contained six full pages of ideas, suggestions and "how-to-do-it" information on projects, plus an entry form. A 3Z-page, full-color Better llomes & Gardens Contest Ideas book goes to each entrant when entry forms are sent in, and entry forms are available only in shorvrooms of dealers tieing in and, of course, BH&G.

The contest is divided into four broad classificationsInteriors, Exteriors, Additions, and Kitchen-Utility. Each

entrant puts his project in the division he believes it should compete. All projects will be in competition with others of equal scope. There u'ill be 184 CASH awards.

Dealer Display Kit

Better Homes & Gardens is making available, to all dealers requesting it, a complete display kit.It includes newspaper mats (and order forms so you can get an atlditional 15 mats), giant streamers, over-the-wire banners, and plenty of entry forms.

Each dealer setting up his store as a Contest Headquarters will receive a special Contest Newsletter, which will offer more display and advertising aids, pass along successful sales ideas gathered from dealers across the nation, ancl keep you up-to-date on what your suppliers are doing to support the contest.

Here is what you receive : 2 giant streamers, 2 over-thewire banners, Pad of entry blanks, 3 newspaper mats (more available on request), Operation booklet, Radiq and television ideas, Information on $1,000 Dealer Contest, BH&G Contest Ideas book, Direct mail stuffers.

An advertisement in the January issue lists 36 major manufacturers who are making additional awards to rvinners in the contest. I\Iany of the manufacturers are making special display materials available to dealers, some are offering prizes to their dealers and others are running'a contest for dealers.

Throughout 7956, the magazine rvill continue to support

AtultAll AGI(lil tutttBER c0., lJtG.

DIRECT Mt]t SHIPMEilIS

CO]ICEilTRATIO]I YARDS

PORTL/AND,

l4E5 Bcyshore Blvd.

JUniper 4-6262

the program in the magazine with hard-hitting articles showing improvement projects from complete remodeling and room additions to do-it-yourself projects such as room dividers, storag'e units. The program will gain momentum as each issue of the magazine is published, will continue to increase in action as more and more of the 14.700.000 readers respond.

The Home Improvement Contest is made to order for California dealers. Increasing families mean space problems, exterior face lifting of older homes, garages and breezeways are needed, painting of exteriors, as well as interiors, patios and many other projects can be entered. There is a big dollar potential in this segment of the building market, and one that alert dealers can use to push up their dollar volume. You can set up your yard as an official Contest Headquarters. Contact Garth Brown, Merchandising Division, Better Homes & Gardens, 1716 Locust Street, Des Moines 3, Iowa.

US Plywood to lssue Publicotion

The first edition of "Building Business," a four-page publication to be issued every other month by United States Plywood Corporation for the light construction industry, has been mailed to 2O,000 builders throughout the country. The illustrated publication will draw on government reports, trade publications and U.S. Plywood's own information sources for highlights of news in the industry. Builders who want to receive "Building Business" at no cost can do so by writing United States Plywood Corporation at 55 West 44th Street, New York 36, New York.

PNOOF OF Tnn PUDITfNG---

Yes, mony deolers hove found thot they con depend on Fisk & Mqson for the hord to get items in roofing. lel us prove thot we con serve you besl on Wood Shingles, Hondsplit Shokes, Celotex

USG Aspholt roofing. -For q bundle or o gorlood, Coll-

CALIFORNIA BUITDING PER'NFS FOR, DECETNBER

Pittsburg PlacerCounty.....

Clara

Tulare

Tulare

Tur!ock

Ukiah

Upiand

Vallejo

Ventura

Ventura

ARIZOilA BUItDIilG PERTIITS

New duPont Wonder Mcrteriol, Celcrsric, fo Ccl Disrributing Co.

Cal Distributing Company, 830 East Co,mmercial gtreet, Los Angeles, has been appointed Southern California distributors for the new."wonder material," Celastic & BBX, manufactured by Celastic Corp., a du Pont subsidiary.

According to Fred and Bruce Hoffine, owners of Cal Distributing, the firm will service the needs of the construction industry, industrial users, dealers and aircraft fields rvith this nelv water-proof, rot-proof material. "Celastic" is a colloid-treated fabric, available in rolls and in various weights and thicknesses. It is used as a water-proof deck material on residential, commercial and industrial buildings.

'.'We are stocking Celastic & BBX for all the trade at our new warehouse, along with our complete line of Sun-Sash air-controlled Louver Windows," said Fred Hoffine.

The new warehouse, adjacent to the Santa Ana, San Bernardino and Hollywood Freeways, is within minutes from all Southern California cities. Modern new offices have been completed and the warehouse area has been increased by over I00%. The building is on a five-car spur track and has adequate loading area for approximately six trucks.

Gelotex Nomes Treqsurer

The election of Choate W. Johns as treasurer of The Celotex Corporation, effective February 1, has been announced by Otis S. Mansell, president.

BRUCE (top lefi) AND FRED HOFFINE (right), owncrs of Col Dirtributing Co., whose modern, conyeni€nt naw distribution wsrehou* in lot Angeles is pictur.d ol lcft cnd righr in bottom pcnel f,cnking rhc photo of the Hofiine brothers in sslion ot .their oftces. left centcr shot shows three of thc ofrce rtoft (l ro r,): Groce G, It/lonsfteld, Donald D. Sqcks ond Edith K, Dow. Righr centcr shows the worchou:e rtcF (1. to r.): John J. Halford, fhomos G. Chirtle ond Fred S. Tilron.

'AMES L. HALL CO.

PHONE: SUtfer l-752O lO42 tvlltUi BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO 4' CALIF. TWX 5.F. 864

SiAOIUM, 4EACHER ONd OUTDOOR SEAIING, HEAVY CONSNUCTION TATERIALS, PO|IS, TIES, PAttErs, POSIS' PIIINC

PORT

For Quality Shipments

Ponderosq Pine o Sugor Pine

Douglos Fir o White Fir

Redwood . Cedor

Phone-Write-Wire

SIERRA-NEVADA PINE COMPANY

P.O. Box 1915, Sqcrcrmento 9

OFFTCE:2OlO BroodwoyPHONE: Hunter 6-7254

Bill Guqrdio Joins So-Cql '

Bill Guardia, formerly in the retail lumber business in Pasadena, has joined the So-Cal Building Materials Co. sales stafi and will cover San Bernardino and Riverside counties, according to Dlck Sreeman, vice-president of the wholesale distributing firifi' Guardia is a veieran in the lumber and building industiy in Sogthern California and is a native of Arcadia. He hag been :identified in the retail lumber field in the Pasadena area since graduating from scht'ol in that city.

Washingtofi often have more

FRED C. HOLMES TUMBER Ctl.

TTENDO.COAST STUDS SPECIALIZING IN REDWOOD . D'OUGLAS FIR WHITE FIR f

Fred Holmes Corl Force Box 987, Fort Brogg' Colif. Phone 7681

I would just be lost without reading the Merchant completely each issue. Check herewith for 1956. Long may you wave !

Calif.

Brouwer Joins De Morco Cqbinet

Phil De Marco of De Marco Cabinet Sales Company, Los Angeles, announces that his firm has employed Ben K. Brouwer, veteran Southern California sash, door and cabinet executive. Brouwer formerly rvas hssociated rvith Cra{tbilt Cabinets and was also president and general manager of the Ready Hung Door Manufacturing Company, Burbank.

"During the past several years our business has grorvn tremendously, and rve definitely need a man u'ith Ben's experience," said Mr. De Marco. Brouwer will assist in the sales program of the firm and general administration of business affairs.

LMANC Convenlion APril 23

The dates for the 16th annual convention of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California have been set for Apri| 23,24,25,1956. The location is Rickev's Studio Hotel in Pato Alto, conveniently located and offering complete convention facilities and services, announced Jack F. Pomerov. executive vice-president.

llenna.ah'

L. M. "Butch" Ilarringer, prominent southland lumber salesman, and his wife received an overdue Christmas package December 26. Anne Kathleen rveighed in at 6-2 at 9 p.m. the day after the big day to join her six brothers and sisters at the Harringer hacienda in Alhambra.

Although Hugh Pesqner, West Coast Timber Products Agency, was passing out cigars December 27. he earns one himself for his timing. Hugh's nen deduction (and just in time) was Sandra Gale, sister to Kirk and Vern, daughter of Hugh and Lu, norn' home in Greenbrae.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Whittemore sailed January 18 on the Luriine for a well-deserved llarvaiian holiday, first in

ORFORD GEDAR (Whirc Godor or tc*rron Cypror)-ALASKA (Yrllow) CEDAR-DOUGIAS FIR

tEO CEOAR-IEDWOOD (Splir & Sown)-SlTKA SPIUCE-WESTEIN |{EIILOCK-SUGAR PINE-PONDEnOSA PINE

"Would Be Losr Wirhoul lt"

-Nate Parsons ' Los Angeles,

Forests of western Oregon and than 50,000 ,bd. ft. to the acre.

REX OXFORD TUTIBER CO"

4068 Grenshow Blvd., Los Angeles 8, Colifornio AXminster 3-6238

a long time for the head of Los Angeles Lumber, Inc., and the first visit to the islands for either Harry or Pat. They were entertained by Jack Fairhurst the eve before sailing at a party in San Francisco for the Whittemores and some northern California lumbermen who are also making the trip. The \\rhittemores return by plane about mid-February.

Partners Bob Raymer and Bill McCubbin spent the second week of January checking northern Califoqnia flood damage and visiting their mill connections.

The McCoy Lumber Company, llemet, Calif., hosted its holiday party for 74 employes and families of the McCoy retail yards at Hemet, San Jacinto and Idyllwild, at a dinner in the Hemet Odd Fellows hall. Attending were the families of Oscar Adams, Norman Ake, Henry Arwedson, Allard Benedict, Jesse Bishop, Don Charleg Arthur Fanto, Steve Fields, Claude Froehlich, Ivor Geiger, Robert Johnson, Russell McCoy, L. E. Mullenix, Dale St. John, Harold Schmitz, Clayton Williams, Gene Ellithorpe, Keith priest, Joe Joiner, Clifford Rose, Allen Thomas, Jack Teters, Mrs. Helen Bell, Ralph Boyers, Michael Dunn, Howard Evans and David Hunt, Jr.

Earle Bender, Pacific Western Lumber Co., returned to Palo Alto GHQ January 16 after a week's trip to Eureka mill connections. He reported that conditions in Humboldt and Mendocino counties rvere plenty soggy and Highway i01 was very poor in many spots north of Garberville.

Lou Holland of the new Continental Lumber, Inc., San l\Iarino, Calif., spent the end of January calling on northern California mills.

Jerry Huntley, E. K. Wood Lumber Co. buyer, spent the first week of the new year surveying flood damage and calling on mills in the Medford-Grants Pass area and south to Eureka.

Joe Hearin, head man of the F. L. Hearin Lumber Co., Medford, Ore., was a recent Los Angeles visitor, attending to business matters and taking time out for some sun and pleasure before returning north.

Just a few days late to qualify as a 1955 "deduction" was Katherine Elizabeth Coonan, who is now at.home sizing up Mike and "Buff" Coonan as potential parent material; Mike, of Tarter, \\rebster & Johnson in San Francisco, reports that mother and daughter are doing fine.

Al Marmin of Beverly Hills will be located in point Arefla for the Jensen Lumber Co. as manager of the Point Arena (Calif.) Shipping and Timber Co., pulp log division.

TRAYCO, INC.

FOR. . DIRECT MILL SHIPMENTS TO LUMBER DEALERS

Truck & Trailer or Rail

&l.wool. - Souglor 9i,Fin"

P.O. Box 508

Phone: CYpress i,-g}Sl San Jose 27, Calif. Teletype SJ-54

Earl L. Hoffman recently returned from a very success_ ful fishing trip to Rancho Buena Vista, new Mexican fishing paradise owned and operated by Joe Garcia. Hoffman was accompanied by Al Zapanta of Mexican Big Game Fishing Service and Al, Jr. The site is 60 miles south of La paz and was just recently opened. Hoffman landed a big marlin as well as many smaller game fish from the shore, including roosterfish, cabrilla, grouper, sierra and yellowtail. Zapanta took a 4?-pound yellowtail on lGpound line with a spinning outfit and is now up for world record recogni- tion; all the fish were taken on spoofers and artificial Iures. Zapanta is booking regular parties on Z-day trips for a modest price which includes lodging, 2-way airplane fare, tourist card, fishing license and air taxi service.

Bate-Position wcrnted $2.00 per column incb

All others. $3.00 per colurnn inch

Cloring dcrtee lor copy, 5th cnd 20th

RETAIL YARD PERSONNEL NEEDED FOR EXPANSION

WANT ADS

One young, exp€rienced man capable of working int-o managershipr--ttt, lii.'e ixpetience either is manager or second man'

Two good counter men-young and experienced; one for Burbank yard locatio,n.

Good order mal-experienced at waiting on trade.

Call or Contact Terry MULLIN or Don McCOIG, Manager, TARZANA LUMBER COMPANY

6056 Reseda Boulevard Tarzana, California

Dlckens 2-3188

EXPERIENCED Order Desk Clerk.

Nomcr of Advertircrs in thir Dcpcrtment uring o blind oddrcsr connol bc divulgcd. All inquirier ond replior rhould be oddrescd ro key rhowir in fhc cdvertircmcnt

ALL-AROUND RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTED

RIGHT-HAND MAN to owner. Should know Estimating, Take-off and general yard operation. Want thoroughly experienced .man with lood krddedge of the business. Los Angeles retail experience preferred.

SUNLAND Lumber Co., afi2 San Fernando Road, STanley 7-2185

SALESMAN WANTED

PROGRESSIVE wholesale Plvwood companv handling hardwood and softwood plywood wants salesman for Orange County. All replies confidential.

Address Box C-2455. California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St', Room 508, Los Angeles 14,' Calif.

AVAILABLE_PLYWOOD SALESMAN WITH FOLLOWING

DAVIDSON PlYwood and Lumber Co.

3136 E. Wastrt!1on St"d-' Los Angeles 23, Calif' ANgelus 3-6931

FULL-CHARGE WOMAN BOOKKEEPER WANTED

Full-charee woman N.C.R. bookkeeper wanted by progrcssive Retail lumber c6mpatty in San Fernando valley' Excellent opportunlty for advancement. Salary good.

Address Box C-2452, California Lumber Merchant i08 lVist 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'

SALESMAN WANTED

Lone-established Southern california wholesale concern desires ex-

who reallv knows-his accounts' This positio-n can in"i ""fi-it.il opportunity f-or the right man. Please send all particulars. to:

Address Box C-2453, Califo'rnia Lumber Merchant lbg Wist 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14' 9alif'

WANTED

OFFICE GlRl-experienced in Plywood and Doors"

DAVIDSON PlYwood and Lumber Co.

3136 E. Wastrington gtva. - Loe Angeles 23, Calif' ANgelus 3-6931

HARDWOOD INSPECTORS

The National Hardwood Lu,mber Association has several- o,penings J,i'-it!-iti-"pJ"tion siar for men qualified to-fill positions iT ylt-tol' districts. Good starting salary and interesting work. Send tull det"ifr Jtyo"t experiencJand preference as to location'

NATIONAL HARDWOOD' LUMBER ASSOCIATION

5g East Van Buren Street, Chicago 5, Illinois

!1/ANTED

EXPERIENCED Plywood Salesman. Salary and Commission' Good opportunitY.

Address Box C-2457, California Lumber Merchant

i-Og W"st 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'

INDUSTRIAL SALESMAN WANTED

By a los Angelgs wholesale hardwood d!st!_!$inc J-19. y-*l

ti"J.f-i.ttt"ie ind willing to work on'a commission basis with a di"""i"c-";"o"nt of $600 monthly, plus a good car allowance. One ft"ui""ifr."u qualifications ehould well make twice his drawing account monthly' Replies confidential.

Addreis Bo-x C-2427, California Lumber Merchant

ioe WCst 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles ld Calif'

Well-qualified plywood salesm4n with good record of results and follow-up busineis will be available March 15. Prefer commission basis. lb years' successful Southern California experience'

Address Box C-2456, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 5O8, Los Angeles 14' Calif.

MILL REPRESENTATIVE

Will'sell vour lumber (Fir or Redwood) in Southern California' Formerly -associated for-20 years with highly rated Los Angeles lumber wholesaler. Desire direct.mill representation. Interview in North or Los Angeles.

Address Box C-2416, California Lumber Merchant 108 West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif'

EXPERIENCED WOMAN DESIRES POSITION

12 years lumber and lumber products. Thoroughly familiar with cosaing and pricing, credits, payroll & taxes,-insurance' inventory & all offile detlil. Lbs Angeles area-preferably West.

Phone: WEbster 3-6036

WILL INVEST

Experienced lumberman with excellent distribution connections will inv-est for part orrrership in good sawmill with timber. Will exchange refcrences.

Address Box C-2377, California Lumber Merchant l(E West 6th St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

TT/ANTED

One 3-axle truck with roll-off type bed for retail lumberyard. Must be in good condition and late model. Please give full details.

Address. Box C-2454, California Lumber Merchant 10E West 6tb St., Room 508, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

LUMBER YARD FOR LEASE

Large fenced-in grounds, 2 sheds, 7ft-horse DeWalt combination saw, small furnished house with bath, kitchen facilities-ideal office or l-person house. Center of San Gabriel valley, 9 miles Northeast of L. A.; LOW RENT TO START. Xlrit opportunity if you know your business & have the stock. OWNER' 56'16 McCulloch, Temple City. See, or phone for appt. DOuglas 7-1301.

ESTABLISHED LUMBER & BUILDING SUPPLY CO. Located in one of the Hot Spots in N.W. Nevada, approx. I acre land and over 5,000 ft. store and warehouse. Forklift, delivery truck and office equip. 1955 gross $180,000. Can increase with new items. Price, $30,000 plus approx. $30,000 inventory. Cash on equipment and inventory. 5 yrs. on balance.

P. O. Box 661, Fallon, Nevada

I Fcbrucry l, 1956

FOR SALE I RETAIL LUMBERYARD FOR SALE

, .arr r rrf,rDEDvADn bAD da? n I sourHERN CALTFORNTA LUMBERYARDS

I rnctuaing hardware stockand equipment. Located in East Los.c'' I t-coae "HARRY"-Located in San G-abriel- v4ley; establis-hed I geles industrial district. property and buildings ror lease o. ".',t I gff; tlfj""#1iXi:?i.35ilXt".1T::r:'iY".'?;tj

I .---.;-- --l '-" --;- . - .' '-.: --'': '*'l ' I for "Do-It-Yourself" trade.

I PRICED RIGHT FIOR A QUICK SALE. Owner has other in- I ings S40,0OO; inventory about $30,000. Might consider leasine at I terests and will make a good deal to the right party. This yard is | $3s0.nonthly plus-taxes. Sales last year $f5,000; fine opportunity

I i" the center of a fast-growing community and room for expansion. | '-'

I Call or write | 2-B!tte County, Calif., woodworking plant; 4-side planer, rip saw,

F.

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I Atrl Long Beach Blvd- South Gate, Calif. | 1:t1:1"it !991$er. Price for everything $10,000; plus'small inventory

I Phones: LUdlow 7-6474Evenings: LUdlow 8-3653 I or about li4wu'

| 3-Code "FERNAND,O"-Located in San Fernando Valley on main ||throughstreet.oneownertwelveyears.RAILRoAor-pess

I.t'l( uA'l-'tsi I only $12 per month. Ground 125x392 ft. More available. PRICE

I Owner wishes to retire and must sell three (3) Retail Lumber Yards | $9,00O for buildings, imlxovements and truck; Inventory abonrt

I FOR COST OF-IN-VENTORY (a-pprox.-$90,-000). These yards are | [6.Q0=_I!E_!1 3 steal. Think of it-you're only going to pay I more than 90 miles from Los Angeles, doing $600,00O per year with I FORTY CENTS per day rent.

$38,000 profit for 1955, and never earned less than $30,000. Own"r | -

;iii"arrvanip-;t,d"itai"g".""ail"Jo"atenormoreyearscoi- ll-,Code."!ALL.pY"-Fine San Fernando Valley yard; well_esI tract to iuif uiryer. May takle TMMEDIATE pOSSESSiON. I llblrsh:d;. o?erating.on three acres; spuf,..track_on property. Will I aaa*r, Box c-2442, california Lumber Merchant I lealq at $1'000 monthly, with renewal privilege. LotJof-sheits; mill

l#"x'Trr,ffi:"Hf::"#t'fii

II IUMBERYARD AVAILABLE FOR RENT OR LEASE I vear. 1955 about a half-million dollars. Marshall & Stevens appraisal i twO ACRES-completely fenced and enclosed area with covered I avallaDle'

I lgl_"l,1oqs_e llgitities; FIVE--ROoM office buildiqc on property, I s-coon "woO^D"-orange County, fine location, established underground gasoline tank-in the heart of the eastside l-os An-gel-e.s I thirty years ago. Over an ic-rl oi gioirhd; about t-"ff-l"".iia-iiitt ' ilgt.-1Y^!]-sj19tt, l-umber unloading s_Fur track,.kiln-drying facili- | sheds, store_fuilding and office. Viry go;d sales reiord.--A"o""a, I ties adjacent to the property. For further particulars call: I buildings and equipment 950,000. Invento*ry "m"f $SO,OOO. Cooaii"-

THE PHIPPS COMPANY

3-5326

sons for selling.

& Stevens appraisal avail6ble. 7157 Telegraph_Road-T,os Angeles ?2

FOR SALE

brokers for over forty years 21,Chris-CraftExpresspruis9r.Fu1lyequippedandcompletely| refinished. All extras. Priced for quick sale.

call DoN at Klmberly 2'3595:. Los Angeles

I rir.r & stowell type design, 1951. Alt-steel package unit with com- I plete-sets of -geai golors-aird all air lifts o" traisfer,;riir-;"i;i;

I li,a'-ali,;."'ti:_i*];i-l;,1,-, qptt_".,i,1i,'+: ilr":d. and outreed each !\'rs DAL!'j | 44'-long,-98'overall. Can handlq ?5,ooo feet p.. day i"i ri-"tt"-t."Gerlinger Lift_Truc-E,.8-ton -cap_acity, 1952 model, 64" forks, ofiset I turin^8 of cants,. Is being- used.for sawing Cliars irito "erticai liiin carriage. Good condition: $4250. I Fir, Spruce, Cedar, etc., for minesweeper-program.

rRoprcAl & wEsrERN LUMBER co. I *,fi::i:t".i1ff,ffft""":l'Jilii:ili""l",Jf",tXlftlxS,f;,i5.f"*;

4334 Exchan-ge Ave',^Los An-g-e-les 58, calif. | $;; ;;d mast gra.des, etc. can be seen in ooeration, wrire rar

4334 ave., r,oi A"E"r., tal ia'ii' I mru' aFo manutacturing such items as ladder stock,.pole s_t_ock and -----ihE;;:-ib;;'..;63;;" Jo'

,ra*t Hilriltiia",l;i, ,-.;t H,:.ff,::r:ruffi:l;.

BUY-SELL-REPAIR-SERVICE I HUSS LUMBER COMPANY

Fork Lifts and Straddle Trucks. Complete shop and field service. I l35O W. Fullerton Avenue Chicago 14, Illinois PortableWelding,SpecialFabrication,StlamCleaningandPaintine.|

Scrvice Available 7 Days a Week All work guEranteed.

coMMERcTAL REPATRS AND sERvrcE I I sAvE! FORK-UFT BARGAINS SAVE!

ttj.S lortl $lameda.Slf:t,-99.pJol -9q$. | |

Phones: NEwmark

lrsDtscounrsonNewsurprue pattstorirlrttrlkrr.ordttodctsotFqkutrs

switchesandhood.Double-endtenenor,Saws,PressesandClamps|!I?wno'ortt^i2^'.^.'iri,tiooll.'.op],ror Flush Door production.

Phone: ATlantic 4-3702

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GERLINGER FORK-||FT; t2,O(X) tb. cof.-...__-_---.___---_$aio0

Alhambra' California | | Ports for Goterpillor - tnfernationqlLe Tournequ rffi .GIPO" LUMBER HANDLING

Labor available for Car Unloading, Sorting, Sticking. "Free" 1956

Printed Price List. Arrangements made for Lift or Carrier Hauls from any public team tracks.

CRANE & CO.

cA. 2-8143

5143 Alhambra Avenue Los Angeles 32, Calif.

loroin - BuckeyeEuclidNorthwerletc.

New 3-lon

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SietE Novddo Pinc Co' ""-""-'---""""""""76

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Cqliforniq lumber Sqler

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E<k:lrom Plywood Door Co.

A 23-% inches linch with.giue il i;; ; smati child, mav be land 6-pennv finishing- nails'- E&ordt Lsmber ond ltfg. Co. ------..-.-_...-73 ,tcthir-Jenrwold Hqrdwoodt, Inc. .-..-,-..-...-76 hfgh tof a small crld, ma_y. D-e | arlg o-PErrIJ. trurstrruB rrorr-r Emr<oPlwood............-.........

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G-.-.----.---'------..--3e Northern Redwood Lmbcr co' * ulro be used for the;;:-

TARIIY

I"fi!ii;r;'ia;;,'ili'";;:6i;

3-5550

LUMBEN

BUYER'S GUIDE

FRANCISCO

OAKLANDBERKEIEYATAMEDA

HARDWOODS

Gordon-MccBeqth .LOckhcvou 8-2578

Bruce Co., E. L.... ..KEllog 3-6677

MccBeqlh Hardwood Co. ... ...Tllornwqll 3-4390

LOS ANGELES

MccDoncld Co,, L. W. (Bevarly Hills) ..... ......BRodshaw 2-5101

Andersqrr-Hqneon ....SUnsef l-6U8 (Srudio City) .STanley 7-472t

Arcqic Eedwood Co. (J. J. Bec)...WEbster 9-1109

Arrow lvfill Conpony ....ANgelus 9-0521

Altcs Lumber Co...... ......TBioity 2326

Avran Lumber Co...... ..EYau l-8733 (Lc Ccrcdc) SYIvqn 0-55{5

Ettck. l. Willicm Lumber ......... .IDcms l-r!361

Bcugh, Ccrl W. (Pasqdeac) ......RYan t-6382

Big rom Lumber hc. ::."ffii# 9$e;

Elisg 6 Gctes Lumber Co,.BAynond 3-1681-3-3454

Bremtor. Lyle 6 Arsocictoa. .DUnkirk 3-8{55

Brom Timber Compcay... ......BRcdsbcw 2-071g

Brrrsh Indusrricl Lumber Co.

(Mortebello)

.B4vmond 3-3301

.WEbster 3-586I

...Rlchnond 9-8843

Mcrqucrt-Wolle Lumber Co.... HOllywood tl-7558

Mqrlin Broe, Box Co. (Lumber Div.) (Conpton). .NEmark l-8651, NEvcdc 6-2363

McCloud Lunber Co.. vEmont 8-4963

Mclntogh Lumber Co.. .BRadshcw 2-4353 (Beverly Hills) .....CRegtview 5-6634

Meier, Herb Lunber Co, (trrccdia)...

R. W. (San Mcriao) PYramid l-2127

Dmt G luseell, Inc. .f,NEelue g-0171

Doaover Co., Inc. ....BRqdshqw 2-{i67 (Ebvetly Hitls) .....CRestview 4-5103

Essley, D. C. 6 Son ...RAymond 3-1147

Eurekq Redwood Lumber Co. (Downey)

B:Bl3l

Fcirhurat Lumbcr Co. oI Cclil. (Los Argeles Lumber, Iac.). ....MAdison 6-9134

Fcr Wegt Fir Salcs Co...........BRcdshaw 2-'!353 (Beverly Hills) ..CRestview 5-6634

FisL d Mcson (So. Poscdenc)....PYrcmid l-I197

SYcamore 9-1197

Forest Products Sales Co., (lnglewood)

Pl,aascnt 3-lI4l

Fouatcia, Ed., Lumber Co.. .LOgou 8-2331

Freemqn d Co., Stepben G. (Newport Beqcb) . ........Harbor 2024

Hclliam MqcLir Lumber Co.......ANgelus 3-4161

Hcnnond Lumber Conpcay.....Rlclmoad 9-7171

Hsrris, L, E, Lumber Co. .......BBcdshcw 2-1023

Hill 6 Morton. lnc.. .BRcdsbaw 2-4315 (Beverlt Hillg) .CResteiew 8-315{

.{obbs Wcll Lumber Co. (Alhombra) ..ATlcatic 2-5779

A. L. Hoovcr Co. (Scn Mcriao)......RYcu l-9321

Syccnore 5-4349

Hu[ Lumber Compcny .Plymouth 6-8lgl

Xendall Lunber Distribuiors.....Rlchnond g-53{l

Lcwrence-Philips Lumber Co. (Beverly Hills) .. ....BBcdshcw 2-437?

Lcnolt Lunber Conpcay........RAynond 3-t1727

Thc Long-Bcll Lumber Co. ........DUalrirk 7-13{7

Loa Angeles Dry f,iln Slorcge, Inc.

Weetem Mill 6 Lunbet Co..

Weyerhceuser Scles Co..

E. U. Wheelock. Iac.

Winton Lumber Scles Co.

E, K. Wood Lumber Co. (Whittier) ....BAynond

.hlchmond 9-652'l .RYcn l-9321

SY.cnore 5-i1349 ......ANselus2-4148

.Rlch-oud 8-6181

..Mlchiscn 2137

...4l{gelus 3-6951 3-'180I-OXIord 4-7d83

CNESOTED LIIMBER-POLES_PILINC}_TIES

Bcxrer, J. H, d co.. ....DUnkirk 8-959t

Wcrren Soulhwegt. lnc.. .NEvqdq 6-2983 (Wilmington) TEmincl i!-2561

HABDWOODS

Amcriccn Hcrdwood

ANgelus 3-5273

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EESMAN PLYWOOD